Believing in Karma: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Excessive Consumption

This research proposes that mortality salience leads individuals to engage in differentiation of excessive consumption based on their appraisal of the karmic system. Study 1 demonstrated that mortality salience interacts with belief in karma to jointly determine excessive consumption, such that cons...

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Main Authors: Siyun Chen, Haiying Wei, Lu Meng, Yaxuan Ran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01519/full