"It's the End of the World as We Know It": Threat and the Spatial-Symbolic Self

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-42

  Burris, Christopher T ^a   Rempel, John K ^a  

^a ST JEROME S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMBOLISM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 1642455827     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.1.19     Document Type: Article

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