Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory

2015/01/01 by Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg · 412 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anxiety #Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion #Death anxiety #Epistemology #Faith #Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health #Morality #Psychology #Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology #Social psychology #Terror management theory #Value (mathematics)

paper · doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2015.03.001

published in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 1-70 (Elsevier)

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