Structured Terror: Further Exploring the Effects of Mortality Salience and Personal Need for Structure on Worldview Defense

Journal of Personality

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 969-990

  Juhl, Jacob ^a   Routledge, Clay ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; RELIGION; TERRORISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COGNITION; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; RELIGION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TERRORISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954017766     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00639.x     Document Type: Article

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