Management theory address the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality.

Terror management theory address the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality. This thoery was developed in 1986 by social psychologists Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon and states that all human behavior is motivated by the fear of our own mortality.