A TAOIST ORIENTATION AND FEARS OF DEATH AND DYING

2009-02-01
Zeyrek, Emek Yuece
Lester, David
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In samples of 100 Turkish undergraduates and 87 American undergraduates, having it Taoist orientation was not consistently associated with fear of death and dying.
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66135
PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS
Department of Psychology, Article

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E. Y. Zeyrek and D. Lester, “A TAOIST ORIENTATION AND FEARS OF DEATH AND DYING,” PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, pp. 81–82, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66135.
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