Mortality salience and perceptions of people with AIDS: Understanding the role of prejudice

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 315-327

  Grover, Kristin W ^a   Miller, Carol T ^a   Solomon, Sheldon ^b   Webster, Russell J ^c   Saucier, Donald A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78649481594     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2010.519252     Document Type: Article

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