Hiding in the Crowd: Can Mortality Salience Promote Affiliation With Others Who Oppose One's Worldviews?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 511-526

  Wisman, Arnaud ^a   Koole, Sander L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 85047694849     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.3.511     Document Type: Article

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