Effects of uncertainty and mortality salience on worldview defense reactions in Turkey

Social Justice Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 384-398

  Yavuz, Hayal ^a   van den Bos, Kees ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural worldviews; Mortality salience; Terror management; Uncertainty management; Uncertainty salience; Women's rights in the Turkish Constitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149142434     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-009-0104-5     Document Type: Article

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