Existential underpinnings of approach and avoidance of the physical body

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-134

  Goldenberg, Jamie L ^a   Kosloff, Spee ^b   Greenberg, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance; Mortality salience; Physical body; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749645479     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9023-z     Document Type: Article

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