Mortality salience, religiosity, and indefinite life extension: evidence of a reciprocal relationship between afterlife beliefs and support for forestalling death

Strides are being made in medicine toward the possibility of indefinite life extension (ILE). Research shows that people cope with the prospect of mortality with various ways to feel transcendent of death, including investing in religion and afterlife beliefs. But how would these investments be affe...

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Authors: Lifshin, Uri (Author) ; Greenberg, Jeff (Author) ; Soenke, Melissa (Author) ; Darrell, Alex (Author) ; Pyszczynski, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2018
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2018, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-43
Further subjects:B mortality salience
B Life extension technologies
B afterlife beliefs
B Religiosity
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