@inbook {315586, title = {The Role of Death Denial in Culture and Consciousness}, booktitle = {Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences}, year = {2017}, pages = { 1{\textendash}16}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons}, organization = {John Wiley \& Sons}, address = { Hoboken, NJ}, abstract = {

Independent lines of theoretical inquiry in evolutionary psychology and existential psychodynamic psychology propose that the awareness of the inevitability of one{\textquoteright}s death would undermine the viability of consciousness as an adaptive form mental organization in the absence of death-denying cultural and psychological affectations. In accord with this view, empirical research derived from terror management theory demonstrates that intimations of mortality have a pervasive effect on a wide range of human beliefs and behaviors.

}, keywords = {death;coping;denial;culture;consciousness;abstract symbolic thought;self-awareness;theory of mind;mental simulations, Keywords:}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118900772}, author = {Solomon, S}, editor = {Scott, RA and Buchmann, MC and Kosslyn, SM} }