Terror management in childhood: Does death conceptualization moderate the effects of mortality salience on acceptance of similar and different others?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1104-1112

  Florian, Victor ^a   Mikulincer, Mario ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032220019     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01461672982410007     Document Type: Article

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