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Science 24 May 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3830, pp. 901 - 903
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3830.901
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National Motives Predict Psychogenic Death Rates 25 Years Later

S. A. Rudin 1

1 Rollman Psychiatric Institute, 3009 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

Achievement motivation scores derived fromn analyses of content of children's stories from 16 countries predicted death rates dut to ulcers and hypertension, and power motivation scores predicted death rates due to murder, suicide, and cirrhosis of the liver 25 years later.


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