A Terror Management Theory of Social Behavior: The Psychological Functions of Self-Esteem and Cultural Worldviews

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue C, 1991, Pages 93-159

  Solomon, Sheldon ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^a   Pyszczynski, Tom ^a  

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EID: 77957025376     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60328-7     Document Type: Article

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