Reminders of mortality increase physical strength output

Evidence

H. J. Peters, J. Greenberg, J. M. Williams, and N. R. Schneider, “Applying Terror Management Theory to Performance: Can Reminding Individuals of Their Mortality Increase Strength Output?” Journal of Sport and Exercise Physiology 27, no. 1 (2005), 111–16. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 869