Terror management and the vicissitudes of sports fan affiliation: The effects of mortality salience on optimism and fan identification

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 813-835

  Dechesne, Mark ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b   Arndt, Jamie ^c   Schimel, Jeff ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 0034310312     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-0992(200011/12)30:6<813::AID-EJSP17>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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