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Laura Blackie

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Personality Psychology Podcast

Eranda Jayawickreme

Jonathan Haidt

Chip Conley

Dacher Keltner

Paul Bloom

Michele Gelfand

Oliver Burkeman

Joshua Miller

Barry Schwartz

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Simine Vazire

Patrick Hill

Richard Lucas

Tom Gilovich

David Robson

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Many people believe that traumatic experiences are often followed by psychological growth. What does not kill us, makes us stronger, right?  Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme are among the leading researchers on this topic, and they just guest-edited a special issue on post-traumatic personality growth in the European Journal of Personality. They talked with René Mõttus what they have learned about how trauma can change us—or if it even changes us, after all.

Many people believe that traumatic experiences are often followed by psychological growth. What does not kill us, makes us stronger, right?  Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme are among the leading researchers on this topic, and they just guest-edited a special issue on post-traumatic personality growth in the European Journal of Personality. They talked with René Mõttus what they have learned about how trauma can change us—or if it even changes us, after all.

#20 Post-traumatic growth with Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme

Why do we avoid thinking about our own death? How does contemplating our own mortality change our day-to-day behaviour? Why do drivers, when reminded of the fact that they will die, actually drive even faster? Whilst society typically hides death from us, might certain death reflection scenarios actually lead to the development of wisdom? Laura Blackie has considered these and many related questions, and joins Igor and Charles to discuss Terror Management Theory, Death Reflection, and the potential upsides of contemplating our own demise. Igor dismisses a death clock which tells him he won't live as long as Charles, Laura outlines the possible prosocial benefits of imagining a painful and horrible death, and Charles admits to spending too much time thinking about whether his funeral will be well attended. Welcome to Episode 3.Special Guest: Laura Blackie.Links:Laura Blackie - The University of NottinghamThe Death Clock: Calculate your life expectancy todayThe Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development | ScienceTerror Management Theory - Greenberg &amp; ArndtSpecific and Individuated Death Reflection Fosters Identity IntegrationGreed, death, and values: from terror management to transcendence management theory. - PubMed - NCBISelf-affirmation and mortality salience: affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility. - PubMed - NCBI

Why do we avoid thinking about our own death? How does contemplating our own mortality change our day-to-day behaviour? Why do drivers, when reminded of the fact that they will die, actually drive even faster? Whilst society typically hides death from us, might certain death reflection scenarios actually lead to the development of wisdom? Laura Blackie has considered these and many related questions, and joins Igor and Charles to discuss Terror Management Theory, Death Reflection, and the potential upsides of contemplating our own demise. Igor dismisses a death clock which tells him he won't live as long as Charles, Laura outlines the possible prosocial benefits of imagining a painful and horrible death, and Charles admits to spending too much time thinking about whether his funeral will be well attended. Welcome to Episode 3.Special Guest: Laura Blackie.Links:<ul><li><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/laura.blackie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laura Blackie - The University of Nottingham</a></li><li><a href="https://www.death-clock.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Death Clock: Calculate your life expectancy today</a></li><li><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5782/1913" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development | Science</a></li><li><a href="https://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.160/Psychologie/Sozialpsychologie/19_Greenberg_Arndt_Terror_Management_Theory.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terror Management Theory - Greenberg &amp; Arndt</a></li><li><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154873" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Specific and Individuated Death Reflection Fosters Identity Integration</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15030620" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greed, death, and values: from terror management to transcendence management theory. - PubMed - NCBI</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15802660" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Self-affirmation and mortality salience: affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility. - PubMed - NCBI</a></li></ul>

Episode 3: On Death (with Laura Blackie)