The Role of Death in Life: Existential Aspects of Human Motivation

The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kesebir, Pelin ^a   Pyszczynski, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Death anxiety; Existential anxiety; Experimental existential psychology; Motivation; Terror management theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874669207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399820.013.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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