Meaning, Mortality, and Choice The Social Psychology of Existential Concerns
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2012
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433811555
Publisert
2012-06-15
Utgiver
American Psychological Association; American Psychological Association
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
438
Om bidragsyterne
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, a social and personality psychologist, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Before moving there, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University of Denver, and State University of New York at Buffalo. He has coauthored and coedited numerous books and has published over 2 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.Dr. Shaver's research focuses on attachment, human motivation and emotion, close relationships, personality development, and the effects of meditation on behavior and the brain. He is a member of the editorial boards of Attachment and Human Development, Personal Relationships, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Emotion, and he has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Shaver received a Distinguished Career Award and a Mentoring Award from the International Association for Relationship Research and has served as president of that organization.
Mario Mikulincer, PhD, is professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He has published five books and over 28 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes, and prosocial motives and behavior.
He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Inquiry, and Personality and Social Psychology Review, and he has served as associate editor of two journals, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personal Relationships. Recently, he was elected to serve as chief editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
He received the EMET Prize in Social Science for his contributions to psychology and the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.
In this thought-provoking addition to the Herzliya Series on Personality and Social Psychology, editors Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer have gathered a varied group of international thinkers to investigate existential concerns within a framework that is both philosophical and practical.
Theorists examine the nature of universal themes such as the importance of personal choice and human autonomy in an arbitrary world, and the vital roles of parenthood and religion in providing solace against the threat of meaninglessness. And clinicians discuss the use of various cognitive behavioral therapies, emphasizing the mind amp rsquo s propensity to assign value in ways that can be either maladaptive or liberating.
The authors build upon insights from previous chapters, resulting in a cohesive book filled with cutting-edge research.
Theorists examine the nature of universal themes such as the importance of personal choice and human autonomy in an arbitrary world, and the vital roles of parenthood and religion in providing solace against the threat of meaninglessness. And clinicians discuss the use of various cognitive behavioral therapies, emphasizing the mind amp rsquo s propensity to assign value in ways that can be either maladaptive or liberating.
The authors build upon insights from previous chapters, resulting in a cohesive book filled with cutting-edge research.
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Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer
I. The Problem of Finitude
- 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. Shaver - 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
II. The Threat of Meaninglessness
- 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 amp ndash Ben-Ari - Deriving Solace From a Nemesis: Having Scapegoats and Enemies Buffers the Threat of Meaninglessness
Mark J. Landau, Daniel Sullivan, Zachary K. Rothschild, and Lucas A. Keefer - Terrorism as Means to an End: How Political Violence Bestows Significance
Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele Gelfand, and Rohan Gunaratna
III. The Challenge of Freedom
- Beyond Illusions and Defense: Exploring the Possibilities and Limits of Human Autonomy and Responsibility Through Self-Determination Theory
Richard M. Ryan, Nicole Legate, Christopher P. Niemiec, and Edward L. Deci - Conditional Regard in Close Relationships
Yaniv Kanat-Maymon, Guy Roth, Avi Assor, and Abira Reizer - 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
IV. Connection Versus Isolation and Loneliness
- 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
V. Overcoming Existential Threats and Challenges
- 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 Behavioral Therapy
Iftah Yovel and Noa Bigman
VI. Synthesis
- The Social Psychology of Meaning, Mortality, and Choice: An Integrative Perspective on Existential Concerns
Sheldon Solomon
Index
About the Editors
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781433811555
Publisert
2012-06-15
Utgiver
American Psychological Association; American Psychological Association
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
438
Om bidragsyterne
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, a social and personality psychologist, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Before moving there, he served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University of Denver, and State University of New York at Buffalo. He has coauthored and coedited numerous books and has published over 2 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.Dr. Shaver's research focuses on attachment, human motivation and emotion, close relationships, personality development, and the effects of meditation on behavior and the brain. He is a member of the editorial boards of Attachment and Human Development, Personal Relationships, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Emotion, and he has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Shaver received a Distinguished Career Award and a Mentoring Award from the International Association for Relationship Research and has served as president of that organization.
Mario Mikulincer, PhD, is professor of psychology and dean of the New School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He has published five books and over 28 scholarly journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Mikulincer's main research interests are attachment theory, terror management theory, personality processes in interpersonal relationships, coping with stress and trauma, grief-related processes, and prosocial motives and behavior.
He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Inquiry, and Personality and Social Psychology Review, and he has served as associate editor of two journals, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personal Relationships. Recently, he was elected to serve as chief editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
He received the EMET Prize in Social Science for his contributions to psychology and the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research.