APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
"I'll be Dead Anyway": Investigating Beliefs of Acute Mortality in Young Adults
- Matthew Traversa
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The current study (n = 35, Mage = 22.86) was designed to provide proof for a phenomenon wherein young people believe they will die at an abnormally early age without external cause. The study found proof of the phenomenon's existence and termed it beliefs of acute mortality (BAMs).
Psychopathology