The "frozen in time" effect in evaluations of the dead

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1708-1717

  Eylon, Dafna ^a   Allison, Scott T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Death extremitization bias; Death positivity bias; Evaluation bias; Impression formation; Social inference; Terror management

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MORALS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIRGINIA;

EID: 28244494632     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205277806     Document Type: Article

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