Death anxiety as a function of belief in an afterlife. A comparison between a questionnaire measure and a Stroop measure of death anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 487-494

  Lundh, Lars Gunnar ^a   Radon, Vidka ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0032164092     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00072-5     Document Type: Article

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