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Taubman--Ben-Ari, Orit – Death Studies, 2004
The current series of studies was conducted to explore the interplay between death awareness, fear of intimacy, and unsafe sex. In Study 1 (n=73), making mortality salient led to higher willingness to engage in risky sexual behaviors, in comparison to a control condition. In addition, only in the mortality salience condition, lower fear of…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Fear, Sexuality, Death

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