Terror management: The effects of mortality salience and locus of control on risk-taking behaviors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1203-1214

  Miller, Richard L ^a   Mulligan, Ryan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Death and dying; Death anxiety; Perceived control; Risk taking behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036837395     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00009-0     Document Type: Article

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