Salience or saliency may refer to: *

Mortality salience Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable and that all attempts to defer it indefinitely are ultimately futile. The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: ...

, a product of the terror management theory in social psychology *

Motivational salience Motivational salience is a cognitive process and a form of attention that ''motivates'' or propels an individual's behavior towards or away from a particular object, perceived event or outcome. Motivational salience regulates the intensity of b ...

, a motivational "wanting" attribute given by the brain *

Salience (language) Salience is the state or condition of being prominent. The Oxford English Dictionary defines salience as "most noticeable or important." The concept is discussed in communication, semiotics, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and political scie ...

, the property of being noticeable or important *

Salience (neuroscience) Salience (also called saliency, from Latin ''saliō'' meaning “leap, spring”) is the property by which some thing stands out. Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their ...

, the perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment *

Social salience In social psychology, social salience is the extent to which a particular target draws the attention of an observer by standing out in a social context. The target may be a physical object or a person, and the observer could be an individual or grou ...

, in social psychology, a set of reasons which draw an observer's attention toward a particular object

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