Joyce has recently begun reexamining her belief in life after death. As she ages, she more strongly believes that there is life after death. According to research, the change in her thinking is a result of:

A) a broadened developmental perspective.

B) an attempt to assuage her fears.

C) a deeper understanding of her religion.

D) her fear that her death will come sooner rather than later.

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Joyce has recently begun reexamining her belief in life after death. As she ages, she more strongly believes that there is life after death. According to research, the change in her thinking is a result of:

A) a broadened developmental perspective.

B) an attempt to assuage her fears.

C) a deeper understanding of her religion.

D) her fear that her death will come sooner rather than later.

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Maia Hanna · Answer 1

Answer: D) her fear that her death will come sooner rather than later.

Explanation:

Terror management theory states that people embrace cultural values and moral ideas to cope with the idea of inevitable death.

There's a fundamental psychological struggle resulting from our self-preservation instinct colliding with the realization of the inevitability and unpredictability of death. The resulting terror is controlled by adopting cultural symbolic systems that imply immortality, such as religion and the belief in the afterlife.