Awareness of our own mortality is a quiet, persistent companion shaping much of human thought and behavior. In The Worm at the Core, psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski argue that the knowledge of inevitable death drives people to cling to cultural worldviews, pursue self-esteem, and seek symbolic or literal immortality—forces that underlie politics, religion, art, and everyday choices.
Like all animals, humans have a powerful, hardwired instinct for self-preservation.
The authors apply these experimental findings to global issues, showing how the subconscious fear of death shapes human history and current events. Politics and Leadership
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