The Bloodiest Shows: Why We Watch Violent Television and How it Affects Us
…strategy to just ignore it altogether? In their book Beyond Death Anxiety, Robert W. Firestone and Joyce Catlett point out that efforts to repress and deny the reality of one’s own death are never fully effective because death anxiety is still present in the subconscious. It frequently acts as an unconscious motive for many defensive behaviors. One of the common defenses people employ to manage death anxiety is adopting a sense of vanity and speci…
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