Terror management studies have employed a variety of methods and materials to assess theoretically derived hypotheses. Listed below are some of the more common materials used in terror management research (click on each title to open a Word document).

• Mortality Salience (MS) Manipulation
• Death-thought Accessibility
• Pro- and Anti-American Essays
• Humanistic and Creaturely Essays
• Word search puzzle (delay)
• "The Growing Stone" (delay)