ICPS
2023 International Convention of Psychological Science
Terror Management at the Movies: How Death in Entertainment Affects Us
Although people avoid thinking about death in daily life, they voluntarily seek out entertainment in which death plays a prominent role in media such as movies. The central question of this symposium is how to explain this paradox. We explore what viewers take away from vicariously experiencing death portrayals.
Chairs & Discussants
- Enny DasChair
Radboud University Nijmegen - Marieke FransenDiscussant
Radboud University Nijmegen
Presentations
- Implications of Time Awareness on the Meaningfulness of the PresentMary Beth Oliver
- Implicit Death Attitudes: The Effect of a Death Portrayal on the Newly Developed Death Approach-Avoidance Task (DAAT)Anneke de Graaf
- How Stories Can Help Us Approach Death and GriefKaitlin Fitzgerald
- An Extended Terror Management Theory of Meaningful EntertainmentEnny Das
