Profound Versus Superficial Coping With Mortality Threats: Action Orientation Moderates Implicit but Not Explicit Outgroup Prejudice

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1132-1147

  Quirin, Markus ^a   Bode, Regina C ^a   Luckey, Udo ^a   Pyszczynski, Tom ^b   Kuhl, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

action orientation; implicit prejudice; implicit self; PSI theory; terror management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908512169     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214536928     Document Type: Article

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