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The impact of mortality awareness on meaning in life among Christians and atheists

Kenneth E. Vail IIIDepartment of Psychology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Melissa SoenkeDepartment of Psychology, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, USA
Pages 44-56 | Received 01 Dec 2015, Accepted 05 Jul 2016, Published online: 21 Mar 2017

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Daniel Spitzenstätter & Tatjana Schnell. (2022) Effects of mortality awareness on attitudes toward dying and death and meaning in life—a randomized controlled trial. Death Studies 46:5, pages 1219-1233.
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Robert B. Arrowood, Kenneth E. Vail$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & Cathy R. Cox. (2022) The Existential Quest: Doubt, Openness, and the Exploration of Religious Uncertainty. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 32:2, pages 89-126.
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Robert B. Arrowood, Jonathan Jong, Kenneth E. Vail$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & Ralph W. Hood. (2018) Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior 8:1, pages 1-3.
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Chau-kiu Cheung, Cindy Xinshan Jia & Jieyi Hu. (2023) Life Meaningfulness, Law Abidance, and Social Risk Among Hong Kong Youth. Applied Research in Quality of Life.
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Kanan Hirano, Kentaro Oba, Toshiki Saito, Ryuta Kawashima & Motoaki Sugiura. (2023) Social-coalitional trait is related to coping capacity with mortality threat: association with leadership and a reduced parietal response to mortality salience. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17.
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Melissa Soenke, Kenneth E. VailIIIIII & Jeff Greenberg. (2022) Investigating the Role of Normative Support in Atheists’ Perceptions of Meaning Following Reminders of Death. Frontiers in Psychology 13.
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Daniel Foschetti Gontijo, Daniel Márcio Rodrigues Silva & Bruno Figueiredo Damásio. (2022) Religiosity/spirituality and mental health: Evidence of curvilinear relationships in a sample of religious people, spirituals, atheists, and agnostics. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 44:2, pages 69-90.
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Sinan Alper. (2020) Does the Association Between Illness-Related and Religious Searches on the Internet Depend on the Level of Religiosity?. Social Psychological and Personality Science 12:4, pages 497-505.
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Mariusz Wysokiński, Wiesław Fidecki & Magdalena Jarosz. (2019) Elderly People’s Acceptance of Death: A Study of a Polish Cohort. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16:18, pages 3374.
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Kenneth E. VailIIIIII, Melissa Soenke, Brett Waggoner & Ilianna Mavropoulou. (2019) Natural, But Not Supernatural, Literal Immortality Affirmation Attenuates Mortality Salience Effects on Worldview Defense in Atheists. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, pages 014616721985505.
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Kenneth E. VailIIIIII, Melissa Soenke & Brett Waggoner. 2019. Handbook of Terror Management Theory. Handbook of Terror Management Theory 259 285 .

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