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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

154 - Sheldon Solomon (Terror Management Theory)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Sheldon Solomon is a psychologist and professor of social psychology at Skidmore College, best known for developing Terror Management Theory, along with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski which is concerned with how humans deal with our own sense of mortality. Solomon co-authored the book The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski.



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0:00.0

Radiomanu, Papa Cango.

0:27.9

Hello out there world. How are you today? Crazy shit going on out in the world.

0:37.5

Bombs going off in France, Belgium and lockdown. Republican lunatics over here

0:44.4

freaking out about letting Syrians into the country. America is the most

0:50.2

frightened country I've ever been in. Don't believe this shit about home of the

0:55.4

brave. It's not true. It's not true. A bomb goes off in Paris and people in

1:02.3

fucking Nebraska think they're next. I'm sorry to break it to you but nobody's

1:10.3

gonna be bombing Nebraska except some you know white supremacist motherfucker.

1:17.1

What's that line from? There's a spearhead song where he says I remember the

1:23.7

time in Oklahoma. You tried to blame an era but the whitey was the bomber. You've

1:29.9

been jumping to conclusions. I think you spent your whole life watching cable

1:35.1

and seclusion illusions about what's outside your door. One nigga to

1:41.4

nigga three. Nigger four. So that's that's the kind of paranoia that you've got

1:47.1

going on in America. They hate us for our freedoms. Really? If that were true

1:53.0

they wouldn't hate us so much because we don't have that many freedoms. Fewer

1:56.7

all the time. Anyway, okay that's the political rant. Now let's move on to

2:02.2

other stuff. This week's guest is Sheldon Solomon who is a fascinating dude. I

2:08.5

first heard about years ago when I was in grad school Stanley Krippner who

2:13.6

some of you probably most of you have heard on the show was my dissertation

2:19.7

advisor and he forwarded some research to me that Sheldon and his colleagues

2:25.3

had been doing in an area called terror management theory and Sheldon's entire

2:33.1

career has been focused on this work and as you'll hear it started I think when

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