Vicarious annihilation: The effect of mortality salience on perceptions of hate crimes

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 547-566

  Lieberman, Joel D ^a   Arndt, Jamie ^b   Personius, Jennifer ^a   Cook, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HATE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CRIME; CULTURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HATE; HUMANS; MISSOURI; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035650849     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012738706166     Document Type: Article

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