Who Uses Groups to Transcend the Limits of the Individual Self? Exploring the Effects of Interdependent Self-Construal and Mortality Salience on Investment in Social Groups

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-491

  Routledge, Clay ^a   Juhl, Jacob ^a   Vess, Matthew ^b   Cathey, Christie ^c   Liao, Jiangqun ^d  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

attitudes; culture and self; interdependence; mortality salience; terror management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878499114     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612459770     Document Type: Article

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