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Sheldon Solomon

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Education and career

Solomon earned his B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.

Currently the Ross Professor for Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College, he is best known for developing terror management theory. Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski co-authored the book The Worm at the Core: On the role of Death in Life in 2015.

He is also the author and co-author of more than one hundred articles and several books, and he has been featured in several films, including Flight from Death and Planet of the Humans. In the latter, he links the pursuit of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, to the reluctance of humans to face their own mortality.

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