Handbook of experimental existential psychology

Guilford Press

2004

528 p.

978-1593850401

Part I. Introduction -- 1. Experimental Existential Psychology: Exploring the Human Confrontation with Reality -- Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, and Sander L. Koole -- Part II. Existential Realities -- 2. The Cultural Animal: Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski -- 3. The Blueprint of Terror Management: Understanding the Cognitive Architecture of Psychological Defense against the Awareness of Death -- Jamie Arndt, Alison Cook, and Clay Routledge -- 4. A Multifaceted Model of the Existential Meanings, Manifestations, and Consequences of the Fear of Personal Death -- Victor Florian and Mario Mikulincer -- 5. The Beast within the Beauty: An Existential Perspective on the Objectification and Condemnation of Women -- Jamie L. Goldenberg and Tomi-Ann Roberts -- 6. Paradise Lost and Reclaimed: A Motivational Analysis of Human-Nature Relations Sander L. Koole and Agnes van den Berg.7. Risk Taking in Adolescence: "To Be or Not to Be" Is Not Really the Question -- Orit Taubman: Ben-Ari -- 8. Random Outcomes and Valued Commitments: Existential Dilemmas and the Paradox of Meaning -- Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Darren J. Yopyk -- Part III. Systems of Meaning and Value -- 9. Religion: Its Core Psychological Functions -- C. Daniel Batson and E.L. Stocks -- 10. In Search of the Moral Person: Do You Have to Feel Really Bad to Be Good? -- June Price Tangney and Debra J. Mashek -- 11. An Existentialist Approach to the Social Psychology of Fairness: The Influence of Mortality and Uncertainty Salience on Reactions to Fair and Unfair Events -- Kees van den Bos -- 12. Zeal, Identity, and Meaning: Going to Extremes to Be One Self -- Ian McGregor -- 13. Nostalgia: Conceptual Issues and Existential Functions -- Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, and Denise Baden.14. Existential Meanings and Cultural Models: The Interplay of Personal and Supernatural Agency in American and Hindu Ways of Responding to Uncertainty -- Maia J Young and Michael W. Morris -- 15. Cultural Trauma and Recovery: Cultural Meaning, Self-Esteem, and the Reconstruction of the Cultural Anxiety Buffer -- Michael B. Salzman and Michael J. Halloran -- 16. Terror's Epistemic Consequences: Existential Threat and the Quest for Certainty and Closure -- Mark Dechesne and Arie W. Kruglanski -- 17. The Ideological Animal: A System Justification View -- John T. Jost, Gráinne Fitzsimons, and Aaron C. Kay -- Part IV. The Human Connection -- 18. The Terror of Death and the Quest for Love: An Existential Perspective on Close Relationships -- Mario Mikulincer, Victor Florian, and Gilad Hirschberger -- 19. Transcending Oneself through Social Identification -- Emanuele Castano, Vincent Yzerbyt, and Maria-Paola Paladino.20. Moral Amplification and the Emotions That Attach Us to Saints and Demons Jonathan Haidt and Sara Algoe -- 21. Ostracism: A Metaphor for Death -- Trevor I. Case and Kipling D. Williams -- 22. I-Sharing, the Problem of Existential Isolation, and Their Implications for Interpersonal and Intergroup Phenomena -- Elizabeth C. Pinel, Anson E. Long, Mark J. Landau, and Tom Pyszczynski -- 23. Bellezza in Interpersonal Relations -- Robert A. Wicklund and Renata Vida-Grim -- Part V. Freedom and the Will -- 24. Being Here Now: Is Consciousness Necessary for Human Freedom? -- John A. Bargh -- 25. Ego Depletion, Self-Control, and Choice -- Kathleen D. Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister -- 26. Workings of the Will: A Functional Approach -- Julius Kuhl and Sander L. Koole -- 27. The Roar of Awakening: Mortality Acknowledgment as a Call to Authentic Living Leonard L. Martin, Keith W. Campbell, and Christopher D. Henry -- 28. Autonomy Is No Illusion: Self-Determination Theory and the Empirical Study of Authenticity, Awareness, and Will -- Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci -- 29. Non-Becoming, Alienated Becoming, and Authentic Becoming: A Goal-Based Approach -- Tim Kasser and Kennon M. Sheldon -- Part VI. Postmortem -- 30. The Best of Two Worlds: Experimental Existential Psychology Now and in the Future -- Sander L. Koole, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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