<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Solomon, S</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scott, RA</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Buchmann, MC</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kosslyn, SM</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Role of Death Denial in Culture and Consciousness</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">death;coping;denial;culture;consciousness;abstract symbolic thought;self-awareness;theory of mind;mental simulations</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Keywords:</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118900772</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John Wiley &amp; Sons</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> Hoboken, NJ</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> 1–16</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Independent lines of theoretical inquiry in evolutionary psychology and existential psychodynamic psychology propose that the awareness of the inevitability of one&#039;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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