Handbook of experimental existential psychology / edited by Jeff Greenberg, Sander L. Koole, Tom Pyszczynski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Jeff, 1954-

Koole, Sander L., 1971-

Pyszczynski, Thomas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Existential psychology.

Psychology, Experimental.

Physical Description:

xv, 528 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2004]

Summary:

Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.

Contents:

1. Experimental Existential Psychology: Exploring the Human Confrontation with Reality / Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sander L. Koole 3

Part II. Existential Realities

2. The Cultural Animal: Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski 13

3. The Blueprint of Terror Management: Understanding the Cognitive Architecture of Psychological Defense against the Awareness of Death / Jamie Arndt, Alison Cook, Clay Routledge 35

4. A Multifaceted Perspective on the Existential Meanings, Manifestations, and Consequences of the Fear of Personal Death / Victor Florian, Mario Mikulincer 54

5. The Beast within the Beauty: An Existential Perspective on the Objectification and Condemnation of Women / Jamie L. Goldenberg, Tomi-Ann Roberts 71

6. Paradise Lost and Reclaimed: A Motivational Analysis of Human-Nature Relations / Sander L. Koole, Agnes E. van den Berg 86

7. Risk Taking in Adolescence: "To Be or Not to Be" Is Not Really the Question / Orit Taubman - Ben-Ari 104

8. Random Outcomes and Valued Commitments: Existential Dilemmas and the Paradox of Meaning / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Darren J. Yopyk 122

Part III. Systems of Meaning and Value

9. Religion: Its Core Psychological Functions / C. Daniel Batson, E. L. Stocks 141

10. In Search of the Moral Person: Do You Have to Feel Really Bad to Be Good? / June Price Tangney, Debra J. Mashek 156

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 167

12. Zeal, Identity, and Meaning: Going to Extremes to Be One Self / Ian McGregor 182

13. Nostalgia: Conceptual Issues and Existential Functions / Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, Denise Baden 200

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, Michael W. Morris 215

15. Cultural Trauma and Recovery: Cultural Meaning, Self-Esteem, and the Reconstruction of the Cultural Anxiety Buffer / Michael B. Salzman, Michael J. Halloran 231

16. Terror's Epistemic Consequences: Existential Threat and the Quest for Certainty and Closure / Mark Dechesne, Arie W. Kruglanski 247

17. The Ideological Animal: A System Justification View / John T. Jost, Grainne Fitzsimons, Aaron C. Kay 263

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, Gilad Hirschberger 287

19. Transcending Oneself through Social Identification / Emanuele Castano, Vincent Yzerbyt, Maria-Paola Paladino 305

20. Moral Amplification and the Emotions That Attach Us to Saints and Demons / Jonathan Haidt, Sara Algoe 322

21. Ostracism: A Metaphor for Death / Trevor I. Case, Kipling D. Williams 336

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, Tom Pyszczynski 352

23. Bellezza in Interpersonal Relations / Robert A. Wicklund, Renate Vida-Grim 369

Part V. Freedom and the Will

24. Being Here Now: Is Consciousness Necessary for Human Freedom? / John A. Bargh 385

25. Ego Depletion, Self-Control, and Choice / Kathleen D. Vohs, Roy F. Baumeister 398

26. Workings of the Will: A Functional Approach / Julius Kuhl, Sander L. Koole 411

27. The Roar of Awakening: Mortality Acknowledgment as a Call to Authentic Living / Leonard L. Martin, W. Keith Campbell, Christopher D. Henry 431

28. Autonomy Is No Illusion: Self-Determination Theory and the Empirical Study of Authenticity, Awareness, and Will / Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci 449

29. Nonbecoming, Alienated Becoming, and Authentic Becoming: A Goal-Based Approach / Tim Kasser, Kennon M. Sheldon 480

Part VI. Postmortem

30. The Best of Two Worlds: Experimental Existential Psychology Now and in the Future / Sander L. Koole, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski 497.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1593850409

OCLC:

54966475