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TMT and theorists
According to TMT theorists, symbols that create cultural worldviews are fiercely protected as representations of actual life.
With regards to the studies that found similar effects, TMT theorists have argued that in the previously mentioned studies where death was not the subject thought about, the subjects would quite easily be related to death in an individual s mind due to " linguistic or experiential connection with mortality ".( p.
TMT theorists argue that MMM cannot describe why different sets of meaning are preferred for a symbol by different people, and that while they may exist, " different concrete ) types of meaning have different psychological functions ".
In sum, TMT theorists believe that MMM cannot accurately claim to be an alternative to TMT because it does not seem to be able to explain the current breadth of TMT evidence.
As an example, TMT theorists assert that mortality salience would not be a threat to meaning, since our eventual demise is a necessary condition of life.
TMT theorists agree that uncertainty can be disconcerting in some cases and it may even result in defense responses, but note that they believe the inescapability of death and the possibility of its finality regarding one s existence is most unsettling.
Though TMT theorists acknowledge that many responses to mortality salience involve greater approaches ( zealousness ) towards important worldviews, they also note examples of MS which resulted in the opposite, which offensive defensiveness cannot account for: when negative features of a group to which participants belong were made salient, people actively distanced themselves from that group under MS.
In response, TMT theorists argue that this critique is mixing up fear related to immediate danger with anxiety related to thoughts of threats that will or may occur eventually.

TMT and is
* Steve Kerr, former American professional basketball player who, according to Ali G, works on " TMT "; Kerr is a basketball analyst with U. S. cable network TNT.
Today, the United States is also the world's largest consumer of soybeans, with an average annual consumption of 45, 313 TMT.
TMT is supported if being reminded of death causes people to cling more strongly to their worldview.
The latest approach in developing a broad, integrative theory of motivation is Temporal Motivation Theory ( TMT ).
A teratoma with malignant transformation ( TMT ) is a very rare form of teratoma that may contain elements of somatic ( non germ cell ) malignant tumors such as leukemia, carcinoma or sarcoma.
BUSES: Kasarwadawali is well connected by buses, be it BEST, TMT, NMMT or ST. One can easily reach Thane Station, Mulund, Vashi, Seepz, Gorai, Borivali, Mira Road and Bhayendar.
Montecito-flavour of multi-threading is dubbed temporal, or TMT.
Yesterday Was Dramatic-Today Is OK is the debut album by experimental Icelandic musical group múm, originally released on TMT ( Iceland ) on 11 March 2000, and then on 2 April 2001 in the United Kingdom.
PMODE / W is also the default DOS extender used by TMT Pascal.
TMT activity during 1963-64 is referred to as Tourkantarsia ( Turkish mutiny ) by Greek Cypriot nationalists.
Graphed is the RSS TMT product, monthly, for 1979-2004.
Terror management theory ( TMT ), in social psychology, states that human behavior is mostly motivated by the fear of mortality.
Self-esteem lies at the heart of TMT, and is a fundamental part of its main experimental paradigms.
TMT does not just attempt to explain what self-esteem is, but rather tries to account for why we need self-esteem, and what psychological functions it may serve.
The answer, according to TMT, is that self-esteem is used as a buffer for people to help them cope with anxiety ; it is a coping mechanism set in place to help control their terror, along with realizing that humans are animals just trying to manage the universe around them.
The " what " for TMT is that self-esteem is a sense of personal value, that is obtained by believing in two things:
Like the other TMT hypotheses, the literature supporting the MS hypothesis is vast and diverse.
Another paradigm that TMT researchers use to get at unconscious concerns about death is what is known as the death thought accessibility ( DTA ) hypothesis.
It is important to note how the DTA paradigm subtly alters, and expands, TMT as a motivational theory.
Furthermore, the DTA hypothesis lends support to TMT in that it corroborates its central hypothesis that death is uniquely problematic for human beings, and that it is fundamentally different in its effects than meaning threats, ( i. e., Heine et al., 2006 ) and that is death itself, and not uncertainty and lack of control associated with death ; Fritsche et al.

TMT and important
TMT used the symbol of the Gray Wolf (), an important archetype from Turkish mythology and symbol of Turkish Nationalism in mainland Turkey.

TMT and
TMT, fundamentally, seeks to elucidate the causes and consequences of a need for self-esteem, and theoretically, it draws heavily from Ernest Becker s conceptions of culture and self-esteem ( Becker, 1971 ; Becker, 1973 ).

TMT and self-esteem
TMT is talking about the protection that self-esteem and cultural worldviews offer against the threat of unavoidable death in the future.

TMT and .
EOKA-B and the Turkish Resistance Organization ( TMT ) were responsible for many atrocities which resulted in cementing tensions and led to total isolation of the communities with Turkish Cypriots withdrawn into enclaves.
Researchers test TMT by exposing people to reminders of their mortality.
Worldview, according to terror management theory ( TMT ), serves as a buffer against death anxiety.
The original researchers note that, in an effort to keep the theory simple, existing theories to integrate were selected based on their shared attributes, and that these theories are still of value, as TMT does not contain the same depth of detail as each individual theory.
About 1958, the Turkish Cypriot nationalist organization TMT started forcing Turkish Cypriots members of AKEL to leave.
The last Turkish Cypriot to be a member of the central committee of AKEL, Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu, was killed by TMT in 1965.
** Thane Municipal Transport ( TMT ) operates its buses from Thane to Mulund and Borivali.
In 1957 the Turkish Resistance Organization ( TMT ) came into existence, a rival paramilitary organisation serving Turkish interests.
Although infrequent, EOKA and TMT targeted each other's members with ferocity.
In the worst period of such violence, in 1958, EOKA killed 55 Turkish Cypriots whilst TMT killed 60 Greeks.
The Thane Municipal Corporation started its own public transport service known as the Thane Municipal Transport ( TMT ) from February 9, 1989.
The TMT has a fleet of 289 buses which ply on 45 routes from 2 bus-depots and 8 bus-stands ferrying approximately 2. 8 lakhs commuters daily.
The town enjoys a supply of electricity from Reliance Energy and now days people have option of TATA Energy as well, telephone services from MTNL, piped gas from Mahanagar Gas, and bus services by BEST, TMT, NMMT, ST & MBMT.
TMT travels to Thane ; ST runs up to Thane & Bhiwandi, NMMT till Vashi while MBMT aims at reducing the overhead on BEST for diffusing local traffic towards Borivali.
* The show was screened in Poland in 14th June 1998 at 16. 30 on every polish-language station in this country at the time with exception of sports and music channels ( the most notable channels that aired this show were TVP1, TVP2, TVP Regionalna, TV Polonia, TVN, HBO, Canal +, RTL7, Nasza TV, Polsat ( which unlike other channels it showed that at a quarter later ), Polsat 2, Polonia 1, TV Niepokalanów, TMT and more ).

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