@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 = {<p>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.</p>
},
	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}
}
