The effect of reminders of death on reckless driving: A terror management perspective

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 196-199

  Taubman Ben Ari, Orit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mortality salience; Reckless driving; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338620     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00093     Document Type: Article

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