American cultural anthropologist whose writing on mortality and meaning influenced later social psychology.
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BirthplaceSpringfield, Massachusetts, U.S. 1 Death PlaceBurnaby, British Columbia, Canada 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionHis 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death, arguing that much human action is organized around managing the terror of mortality, became the direct theoretical basis for terror management theory. 2 Notable WorkThe Denial of Death (1973) 1 Ernest Becker
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Becker supplied the founding conceptual claim; Greenberg, Pyszczynski and Solomon formalized it as a testable psychological theory in 1986.
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1. Wikipedia: Ernest Becker
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The Denial of Death (1973)
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Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 - March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author
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Ernest Becker asserted in his 1973 book The Denial of Death that humans, as intelligent animals, are able to grasp the inevitability of death.
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