PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mortality Salience, Collectivism, Learned Helplessness
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Monkey being scared runs towards his mother. When we are insecure (attachment, relationship, intellectual, etc. ) we can threaten our own self-esteem. In terror management, think of threats related to your own mortality. All threats evoke a similar response, is that people want to grab onto a source of meaning. Feeling out a value scale gets rid of the threat, because it is them. System justification, they will grab onto their belief and defend it strongly. If you give the people something to grab onto, they will self-affirm and use that abstraction to make themselves better. The capitalist framework is an important concept to the american consumers. The way that people construct meaning is fairly important. We can totally change how we can construe something by looking at meaning. Meaning maintenance model by steve something or other. When something shakes us up, we can resolve that feeling in lots of different ways. About the interchangability of our meaning structures.
