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From att!gorm.ruc.dk!david Wed Apr 24 18:29:53 +0200 1991
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 18:29:53 +0200
From:  (David Stodolsky)
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Subject: Paper: Ontological Confrontation

Ochsmann, R.
Cognitive and affective consequences of ontological confrontation.
In. P. Drenth, J. Sergeant & J. Takens (eds.)
European Perspectives in Psychology, Vol. 2
Chichester: Wiley, 1990, 297-301.

Abstract

The notion that non-religious people emphasize the rewards
of living while religious people stress the importance of afterlife
after confrontation with death was investigated. There were no
significant changes of beliefs with the highly religious subjects.
The low religious subjects showed and increase of state anxiety after 
confrontation with death. Changers of beliefs were not in
correspondence with changes of anxiety. The results do not support
the notion that these beliefs serve the function of helping the
individual to deal with fear of death.

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