Welcome to the Counterweight podcast, where we talk about how we can strive for a world in which freedom and reason are at the forefront of all human society. In this week’s podcast, our hosts Mike Burke and Elizabeth Spievak discuss activism as a heroic quest for symbolic immortality, terror management, the COVID-19 pandemic, and how and why critical social justice and woke activism absolutely exploded during that period.

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Terror management theory and the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 61(2), 173–189. https://doi-org.libserv-prd.bridgew.edu/10.1177/0022167820959488

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