Digging in Terror Management Theory: To Use or Lose the Symbolic Self?

Psychological Inquiry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 319-327

  Wisman, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84859506309     PISSN: 1047840X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10478400701369468     Document Type: Article

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