Zaleskiewicz, Tomasz; Gasiorowska, Agata; Kesebir, Pelin; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 36 (2013) C, pp. 55-67
According to terror management theory, people deal with the potential for anxiety that results from their knowledge of the inevitability of death by holding on to sources of value that exist within their cultural worldview. We propose that money is one such source capable of soothing existential...