Fear of death and human destructiveness

Psychoanalytic Review

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 457-474

  Solomon, Sheldon ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^a   Pyszczynski, Tom ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; DESTRUCTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENT; FEAR; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; LIFE; MORTALITY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIOLENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EXISTENTIALISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EVOLUTION; EXISTENTIALISM; FEAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 2142856182     PISSN: 00332836     EISSN: 19433301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/prev.90.4.457.23915     Document Type: Review

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