Validation of personal identity as a terror management mechanism: Evidence that sex-role identity moderates mortality salience effects

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1011-1022

  Florian, Victor ^a   Mikulincer, Mario ^b   Hirschberger, Gilad ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035536645     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167201278008     Document Type: Article

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