Past Terror Management Theory (TMT) research has demonstrated that mortality salience leads to favoritism toward ingroup members and derogation of outgroup members and to polarized attitudes toward the source of pro and counterattitudinal statements. In such research, the individual's group membership and the individual's worldview position were examined separately. Thus, when the individual's ...

Contemplation of death increases support of ingroup ideologies, a result explained by proponents of terror management theory (TMT) as an attempt to buffer existential anxiety. While TMT claims that only death-salient stimuli yield such effects, an evolutionary perspective suggests that increased intergroup bias may occur in response to a wide variety of situations that, in ancestral environment...

Purpose Long sales periods (i.e. Christmas time, Black Friday, etc.) and the risk of contagion while shopping during pandemics like COVID-19) showed extent to which crowded environments have negative effects on consumers’ behavior. Hence, using terror management theory (TMT) stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) approach, authors aims develop a new model investigate effect crowd-checking technolog...

Top management team theory (TMTT) has been researching on the relationship between top management team (TMT) and organization outcome through demographic characteristic and its heterogeneity. As the researcher failed to solve the “black box” problem, they get no consistent findings. Power perspective of TMTT will help out of the research predicament, so to focus on combing and assessing the TMT...

Introduction: Despite advancements in health behavior theories, understanding the human motivation to engage disaster preparedness remains elusive. Most attempts at engaging public protective rely on risk communication that assumes an information deficit among people; ergo, communicators operate under assumption by increasing awareness of risks, sufficient can be generated for behavior. Yet, th...

Over the last 40 years, job burnout has attracted a great deal of attention among researchers and practitioners and, after decades of research and interventions, it is still regarded as an important issue. With the aim of extending the Anxiety Buffer Disruption Theory (ABDT), in this paper we argue that high levels of burnout may disrupt the anxiety buffer functioning that protects people from ...

This article investigates the effect of compositions of managerial characteristics of top management team on the extent of information technology (IT) adoption. Adopting the upper echelon theory as theoretic foundation, the study formulated hypotheses relating compositions of top management team (TMT) characteristics to the extent of IT adoption in small businesses. Specifically, the TMT charac...