Connecting terror management and dissonance theory: Evidence that mortality salience increases the preference for supporting information after decisions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1181-1189

  Jonas, Eva ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b   Frey, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural worldview; Dissonance theory; Information search after decisions; Terror management theory

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0041825150     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203254599     Document Type: Article

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