Mild depression, mortality salience, and defense of the worldview: Evidence of intensified terror management in the mildly depressed

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-90

  Simon, Linda ^b   Greenberg, Jeff ^c   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^c   Solomon, Sheldon ^c   Pyszczynski, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0029689151     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167296221008     Document Type: Article

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