Have you ever found a chance to watch M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie titled The Village? It’s a story about people living in a small and very isolated village near Pennsylvania. The villagers who were voluntarily trapped or even imprisoned in their neighborhood so that they were not allowed to cross the border between the village and the forest because their rulers made them believe that the forest hosts some creatures which would eventually harm people if they had a chance to do so. In short, if you cross the border, the death would eventually get you. People in the village did not know where and how they confront with the uncertain death, therefore they had only one thing to do: Obey the rules, listen to the leaders, and never cross the border. The …show more content…
One of the well-known theories, Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986), has a simple starting argument of human behavior: Unlike other species, human beings are aware of their inevitable death. Although this argument seems very simple to comprehend human behavior, many experiments showed that people behaved much more conservative, radical, and or fundamentalist to defend their cultural worldview under mortality salience conditions. In other words, when people are reminded of their own death, they tend to stick to their ingroup values and separate themselves from “others”. For example, in an interesting study carried out by Kökdemir and Yeniçeri (2010), Turkish undergraduate students who enrolled in political science and international