Toward a Biological Understanding of Mortality Salience (And Other Threat Compensation Processes)

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  2012

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  Social Cognition

• Publication date

  2012-11-21

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  Biology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1521/SOCO.2012.30.6.715
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