The Postself and Terror Management Theory: Reflecting on After Death Identity Buffers Existential Threat
In contemporary secular societies, ideas of an afterlife have become quite diverse, ranging from secular to religious and spiritual conceptions. In this article, an experimental study is reported in which the postself, a person's imagination of an after-death reputation, is tested as a protecti...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2011
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-144 |
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