1. A consideration of three critical hypotheses -- 2. Proximal and distal terror management defenses: a systematic review and analysis -- 3. What's death got to do with it? Controversies and alternative theories -- 4. The method behind the science: a guide to conducting terror management theory research -- 5. Terror management motivation fuels structure-seeking -- 6. We supernaturals: terror management and people's ambivalent relationship with nature -- 7. The curse and the blessing: the self as source of the terror and the primary avenue for managing it -- 8. Precious time: the role of time and temporal thought in managing death awareness -- 9. Terror management is for the birds and the bees: an existential perspective on the threat associated with human corporeality -- 10. An attachment perspective on managing death concerns -- 11. Terror management theory and religious belief -- 12. Secular cultural worldviews -- 13. Terror management theory: a theory of psychological well-being -- 14. The terror management of meaning and growth: how mortality salience affects growth-oriented processes and the meaningfulness of life -- 15. Existential neuroscience: a review and brain model of coping with death awareness -- 16. Physical health under the shadow of mortality: the terror management health model -- 17. Aging and coping with mortality: understanding attitudes about aging and age-related differences in coping with death -- 18. Terror management theory and psychological disorder: ineffective anxiety-buffer functioning as a transdiagnostic vulnerability factor for psychopathology -- 19. The cycle of intergroup conflict: terror management in the face of terrorism and war -- 20. Consumer culture as worldview defense: a terror management perspective -- 21. Legal applications of terror management theory -- 22. Applying terror management theory to art, film, and media: a theoretical and empirical review -- 23. The terror management underpinnings of risky behavior -- 24. Meaning-making, communication, and terror management processes.
