Yes, Jesus loves me! Mortality salience increases positivity in implicit and explicit images of Christ.
The present research, utilising a terror management theory perspective, examined the effects of death awareness on Christians' explicit and implicit image of Jesus. Following exposure to mortality salience, participants were asked to complete a reverse correlation task (Study 1) or a forensic sketch...
| Publicado en: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 755 - 771 |
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