Glossary D
Glossary D
Death seekers are individuals who clearly and explicitly seek to end their lives.
Death system refers to the formal or informal structure that every society employs to mediate between death and its members which is composed of specific elements designed to perform particular functions . Death system is also defined as the collection of rituals and procedures used by a culture to handle death.
Death-related language refers to speech that employs language about death to describe or intensify talk about subjects that have nothing to do with death
Death-related practices refer to familiar routines, procedures, and actions that follow from or are related to death-related encounters and actions
Debiasing means reducing errors and biases by getting people to use controlled processing rather than automatic processing
Debriefing refers to a procedure conducted at the end of an experiment in which the researcher provides human participants with as much information about the study as possible, making sure no participant leaves feeling confused, upset, or embarrassed.