Self-transcendent values moderate the impact of mortality salience on support for charities

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 779-789

  Joireman, Jeff ^a   Duell, Blythe ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charities; Scrooge effect; Terror management theory; Universal values

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250731353     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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