Diverging effects of mortality salience on variety seeking: The different roles of death anxiety and semantic concept activation

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  2015

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  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2015-05-01

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  Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.JESP.2015.01.008
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