Defending a coherent autobiography: When past events appear incoherent, mortality salience prompts compensatory bolstering of the past's significance and the future's orderliness

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1012-1020

  Landau, Mark J ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b   Sullivan, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical coherence; Personal need for structure; Self narrative; Terror management theory; Time

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EXISTENTIALISM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; CULTURE; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EXISTENTIALISM; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF EFFICACY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69149105710     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209336608     Document Type: Article

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