Time and terror: Managing temporal consciousness and the awareness of mortality

Understanding Behavior in the Context of Time: Theory, Research, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 59-84

  Routledge, Clay ^a   Arndt, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410613516     Document Type: Chapter

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