APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

"I'll be Dead Anyway": Investigating Beliefs of Acute Mortality in Young Adults

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Clinical Science

  • 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

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