Creativity and terror management: Evidence that creative activity increases guilt and social projection following mortality salience

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-32

  Arndt, Jamie ^b   Greenberg, Jeff ^c   Pyszczynski, Tom ^a   Solomon, Sheldon ^c   Schimel, Jeff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri ^*

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EID: 0033407775     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.1.19     Document Type: Article

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