Sensation seeking and risk taking in mortality salience

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1809-1819

  Rosenbloom, Tova ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Driving; Mortality salience; Risk taking; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142184791     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00031-X     Document Type: Article

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