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cord-032227-xxa0hlpu	Pyszczynski, Tom	Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-09-17		.txt	text/plain	5076	217	45	Although there are many disturbing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the perspective of terror management theory (TMT; Greenberg et al., 1986; Solomon et al., 2015) , the enormous death toll and highly contagious nature of the virus play especially important roles in spawning the diverse forms of turmoil that have resulted from this crisis. TMT posits that people manage the potential for anxiety inherent in awareness of the inevitability of death by maintaining faith in their cultural worldviews, self-esteem, and close relationships; these anxiety-buffering systems mitigate existential terror by imparting a sense that one is a person of value living in a meaningful world (for a more thorough presentation of these ideas, see Solomon et al., 2015) .	./cache/cord-032227-xxa0hlpu.txt	./txt/cord-032227-xxa0hlpu.txt