Terror management among Taiwanese: Worldview defence or resigning to fate?

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 185-194

  Yen, Chih Long ^a   Cheng, Chung Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asian; Culture; Death; Meta analysis; Mortality salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955754639     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01328.x     Document Type: Article

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