Terror management and political attitudes: The influence of mortality salience on Germans' defence of the German reunification

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Jonas, Eva ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 1142266597     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.178     Document Type: Article

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