The Fear of Death, the Fear of Dying, and Threshold Differences for Death Words and Neutral Words

The teacher's word book of 30,000 words.

Paul A. Witty · Journal of Consulting Psychology · 1945 · 2.7K citations

Controlled Vocabulary, Word Book, Language Learning +2

Emotionality and perceptual defense.

Elliott McGinnies · Psychological Review · 1949 · 429 citations · Full text

Cognitive Science, Emotional Response, Perceptual Defense +8

The Fear of Death and the Fear of Dying

Lora-Jean Collett, David Lester · The Journal of Psychology · 1969 · 413 citations

Existentialism, Psychiatry, Fear Appeals +7

A note on McGinnies' "Emotionality and perceptual defense."

Davis Howes, Richard L. Solomon · Psychological Review · 1950 · 128 citations

Cognitive Science, Perceptual Defense, Affective Neuroscience +7

On the interpretation of word frequency as a variable affecting speed of recognition.

Davis Howes · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1954 · 64 citations

Language Perception, Word Frequency, Health Sciences +8