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Personal Survival

Personal Survival is a theoretical construct in the academic study of life after death that posits the continuation of an individual's conscious identity beyond bodily death, distinguished from impersonal or collective forms of postmortem existence by emphasizing the persistence of personal attributes such as memory, self-awareness, and moral identity.

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13.5K

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318

Authors

183

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2017–2026

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Post-mortem SurvivalSurvival Of Consciousness

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Publications

221

Reasons for staying alive when you are thinking of killing yourself: The Reasons for Living Inventory.

Marsha M. Linehan, Judith L. Goodstein, Stevan L. Nielsen et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1983 · 830 citations

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Reasons for staying alive when you are thinking of killing yourself: The Reasons for Living Inventory.

Marsha M. Linehan, Judith L. Goodstein, Stevan L. Nielsen et al. · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 1983 · 816 citations

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The human animal: personal identity without psychology

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 561 citations

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

James Kohnen · Quality Management Journal · 2007 · 506 citations

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The complex business of survival by aposematism

Johanna Mappes, Nicola M. Marples, John A. Endler · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2005 · 495 citations

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Authors

318

  1. IS
    Ian Stevenson

    University of Virginia, United States

    4 publications · 156 citations

    4

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  2. RN
    Russell Noyes

    University of Iowa, United States

    3 publications · 468 citations

    3

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  3. MM
    Marsha M. Linehan

    University of Washington, United States

    3 publications · 1.7K citations

    3

    h-index

  4. AK
    Adama Konseiga

    African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya

    3 publications · 125 citations

    3

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  5. BG
    Bruce Greyson

    University of Virginia Health System, United States

    3 publications · 162 citations

    3

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1–5 of 318

Institutions

183

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    237 citations

  2. University at Buffalo, State University of New York

    Buffalo, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    170 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    476 citations

  4. Umeå University

    Umeå, Sweden

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    263 citations

  5. City University of New York

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    102 citations

  6. Keele University

    Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    110 citations

  7. University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    Colorado Springs, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

  8. University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    236 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 9 publications · 924 citations

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  2. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    PPR · 5 publications · 356 citations

    5

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  3. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

    5 publications · 170 citations

    5

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  4. JAMA

    4 publications · 137 citations

    4

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  5. The Journal of near-death studies

    3 publications · 108 citations

    3

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