Death concerns and other adaptive challenges: The effects of coalition-relevant challenges on worldview defense in the US and Costa Rica

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 411-427

  Navarrete, Carlos David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalitional psychology; Costa Rica; Interdependence; Intergroup bias; Terror management

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644519308     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430205056468     Document Type: Article

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