Mother Teresa versus Ebenezer Scrooge: Mortality salience leads proselfs to endorse self-transcendent values (unless proselfs are reassured)

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 307-320

  Joireman, Jeff ^a   Duell, Blythe ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scrooge effect; Social value orientation; Terror management theory; Universal values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 18844410833     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204271593     Document Type: Article

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