mortality salience

awareness of the inevitability of one’s death. According to terror management theory, mortality salience, coupled with death anxiety, is a motivating force behind a diverse set of actions designed to defend oneself or one’s social group when threatened.

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Psychology term of the day

November 24th 2024

commonality analysis

in multiple regression, a technique by which the known variance in an outcome or response variable is separated out into the parts that can be uniquely attributed to each individual predictor variable and the parts that are common to any two or more variables.