Multiple Choice
According to the tenets of terror management theory, why do we often adopt beliefs in the paranormal?
A) Mortality salience encourages experiential and other forms of illogical reasoning.
B) Mortality salience encourages higher levels of belief in the unknowable.
C) Mortality salience encourages reassuring cultural perspectives, like the existence of heaven or the afterlife.
D) Mortality salience encourages religious faith or spirituality.
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