When Death is Good for Life

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2012-04-05

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1088868312440046PMID 22490977
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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