Mortality salience and morality: thinking about death makes people less utilitarian.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Cognition

• Publication date

  2012-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.05.011PMID 22698994
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