Toward a greater understanding of the emotional dynamics of the mortality salience manipulation: revisiting the "affect-free" claim of terror management research.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2014-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0036353PMID 24749817
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