Toward understanding why fairness matters: The influence of mortality salience on reactions to procedural fairness

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 355-366

  Van Den Bos, Kees ^a,b   Miedema, Joost ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0034277455     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.3.355     Document Type: Article

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