He is probably best known for developing Terror Management Theory, along with Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski which is concerned with how humans deal with their own sense of mortality.
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In addition to interviews with a number of contemporary philosophers, psychiatrists and teachers such as Sam Keen, Robert Jay Lifton, Irvin Yalom, Merlyn Mowrey and Daniel Liechty, the film introduces the viewer to a group of social psychologists, who conduct research in support of what they call Terror management theory (terror in this case not being terrorism, but rather emotional and psychological reaction to mortality awareness).