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International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis Volume 2 (2016), Article ID 2:IJPBA-112, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2016/112
Research Article
Spiritual Transcendence, Mortality Salience and Consumer Behaviors: Is Spirituality Really Opposite to Materialism?

Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska* and Jarosław Piotrowski

1Department of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Poland
2University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznan Campus, Poland
Dr. Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Department of Psychology, University of Gdansk, Poland; E-mail: psymzp@ug.edu.pl
27 November 2015; 04 April 2016; 06 April 2016
Żemojtel-Piotrowska M, Piotrowski J (2016) Spiritual Transcendence, Mortality Salience and Consumer Behaviors: Is Spirituality Really Opposite to Materialism? Int J Psychol Behav Anal 2: 112. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2016/112

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