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Meaning, Mortality, and Choice : the Social Psychology of Existential Concerns /

"A fundamental aspect of being human is knowing that one day we will die. Efforts to contend with this knowledge are at the root of a great many social behaviors across a variety of domains, and include efforts to transcend the human body, aggression against enemies and the need for scapegoats,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shaver, Phillip R. (Editor ), Mikulincer, Mario (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2012]
Colección:Herzliya series on personality and social psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Phillip R. Shavor and Mario Mikulincer
  • Terror management theory : from genesis to revelations / Jeff Greenberg
  • Helplessness : a hidden liability associated with failed defenses against awareness of death / Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shavor
  • A significant contributor to a meaningful cultural drama : terror management research on the functions and implications of self-esteem / Jamie Arndt
  • Culture, ideology, morality, and religion : death changes everything / Tom Pyszczynski and Pelin Kesebir
  • A body of terror : denial of death and the creaturely body / Jamie L. Goldenberg
  • The impermanence of all things : an existentialist stance on personal and social change / Gilad Hirschberger and Dan Shaham
  • Meaning : ubiquitous and effortless / Laura A. King
  • Religion as a source of meaning / Crystal L. Park and Donald Edmondson
  • Becoming and developing : personal growth in the wake of parenthood and grandparenthood / Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari
  • Deriving solace from a nemesis : having scapegoats and enemies buffers the threat of meaninglessness / Mark J. Landau [and others]
  • Terrorism as means to an end : how political violence bestows significance / Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele Gelfand, and Rohan Gunaratna.
  • Beyond illusions and defense : exploring the possibilities and limits of human autonomy and responsibility through self-determination theory / Richard M. Ryan [and others]
  • Conditional regard in close relationships / Yaniv Kanat-Maymon [and others]
  • Removing the constraints on our choices : a psychobiological approach to the effects of mindfulness-based techniques / Nava Levit Binnun, Rachel Kaplan Milgram, and Jacob Raz
  • Choice, freedom, and autonomy / Barry Schwartz
  • An attachment perspective on coping with existential concerns / Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer
  • Ostracism : the impact of being rendered meaningless / Kipling D. Williams
  • Why people die by suicide : further development and tests of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior / Thomas E. Joiner Jr. and Caroline Silva
  • The case of Allison : an existential-integrative inquiry into death anxiety, groundlessness, and the quest for meaning and awe / Kirk J. Schneider
  • Separation theory and voice therapy methodology / Robert W. Firestone and Lisa Firestone
  • Acceptance and commitment to chosen values in cognitive behavior therapy / Iftah Yovel and Noa Bigman
  • The social psychology of meaning, mortality, and choice : an integrative perspective on existential concerns / Sheldon Solomon.