“…Put differently, numbed individuals tend to not feel good or bad, but simply muted or flat, and have difficulty imagining strong emotional reactions in future events. Numbing can result from social exclusion and is also a defining characteristic of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Baumeister, DeWall, & Vohs, ; Ben‐Ezra, Leshem, & Goodwin, ; Blake et al, ; Litz et al, ; Tull & Roemer, ; Twenge, Baumeister, Tice, & Stucke, ). Interestingly, the capacity of mortality salience, the state of being aware of dying and life's finitude, to temporarily numb has not been explored.…”