Title: Meaning, mortality, and choice : the social psychology of existential concerns /
Authors: Shaver, Phillip R.; Mikulincer, Mario.
Publisher: American Psychological Association,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Existential psychology.
Contents: 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 changes / 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 ... [et al.] -- Terrorism as means to an end : how political violence bestows significance / Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele Gelfand, and Rohan Gunaratna --