Fleeing the Body: A Terror Management Perspective on the Problem of Human Corporeality

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  2000

• Venue

  Personality and Social Psychology Review

• Publication date

  2000-08-01

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1207/S15327957PSPR0403_1
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