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Mortality Salience Effects on the Life Expectancy Estimates of Older Adults as a Function of Neuroticism

Research has shown that reminders of mortality lead people to engage in defenses to minimize the anxiety such thoughts could arouse. In accord with this notion, younger adults reminded of mortality engage in behaviors aimed at denying vulnerability to death. However, little is known about the effect...

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Autores principales: Maxfield, Molly, Solomon, Sheldon, Pyszczynski, Tom, Greenberg, Jeff
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21151516
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2010/260123