Older people and death-thought accessibility: The association between death and older people in memory.
This work aimed to conceptually replicate and extend Martens, Greenberg, Schimel, and Landau's findings about older people as threatening future self. We conducted two studies using a lexical decision task to measure death-thought accessibility. Results showed that older people primes lead to strong...
| Published in: | Death Studies Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 666 - 675 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022
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