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What is terror management theory?

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Is There a Causation of Climate Change?

In a study in Canada, people who were exposed to an ad that said 'bing drinking is bad' tended to drink within the next two weeks. This was because they already had some sort of neutral emotion going on - guilt and shame for bins drinking. In other studies, it's been shown that if you manipulate the public in a certain way, you're going to have a counter productive reaction from em. Yes? Because it sells headlines. It sells headlines. Sells papers, it does. But there really aren't papers any more, so it sells clicks, exactly.

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