Evolutionizing Grief: Viewing Photographs of the Deceased Predicts the Misattribution of Ambiguous Stimuli by the Bereaved
We propose a cognitive-evolutionary model of grief where the function of grief is to reunite a person with an absent partner where this is possible, and where it is not, to disengage and reorientate the individual from the lost agent. The present study investigates the potential factors that affect...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2013-12-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100513 |