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Terror Managment Theory<ref>[http://people.uncw.edu/ogler/Experimental/TM%202.pdf Greenberg, Jeff, et al. "Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview." Journal of personality and social psychology 58.2 (1990): 308.]</ref><ref>[http://people.uncw.edu/ogler/Experimental/TM%201.pdf Rosenblatt, Abram, et al. "Evidence for terror management theory: I. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values." Journal of personality and social psychology 57.4 (1989): 681.]</ref>
Terror management theory (TMT), in social psychology, states that human behavior is mostly motivated by an unconscious fear of mortality. According to TMT theorists, symbols that create cultural worldviews are protected as representations of continuity. The terror management theory posits that when people are reminded of their own deaths, they more readily enforce these symbols. Experiments conducted by Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski, and Jeff Greenberg sought to lend evidence to the concept that mortality salience, or the awareness of one's own death, affects the decision making of groups and individuals.[1]