Giannetti, Caterina; Orsini, Raimondello - 2013
According to the Terror Management Theory, the fear of death may induce anxiety and threaten individual self-esteem. To … remove this fear, individuals need to obtain and sustain self-esteem, for example by competing in rank order tournaments, or … effects on productivity via individual self-esteem, while in a second treatment subjects receive public feedback, which may …