Empathy in the Face of Death: Fear Transcendence Effects are Conditional on Empathizing with Movie Characters in Eudaimonic Entertainment The Terror Management Theory of Media Entertainment (TMT-ME) proposes that death portrayals in eudaimonic entertainment can invite viewers to face their fear of death and transcend it. Although emp...

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