To belong or not to belong, that is the question: Terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 26-43

  Arndt, Jamie ^a   Schimel, Jeff ^c   Greenberg, Jeff ^d   Pyszczynski, Tom ^b   Solomon, Sheldon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d University of Alberta ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 85047674472     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.1.26     Document Type: Article

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