| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 508 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 Introduction: The New Science of Meaning / Matthew J. Lindberg -- I. The Architecture of Meaning -- 2. Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity / Jordan B. Peterson -- 3. An Edifice for Enduring Personal Value: A Terror Management Perspective on the Human Quest for Multilevel Meaning / Matthew Vess -- 4. Beyond Mortality and the Self: Meaning Makes a Comeback / Travis Proulx -- II. Epistemic Understanding -- 5. Truth Motivation / E. Tory Higgins -- 6. Lay Theories of Personality as Cornerstones of Meaning / Jason E. Plaks -- 7. Making Meaning by Seeing Human / Adam Waytz -- III. Teleological Understanding: A Guide for Living -- 8. Autobiographical Memory and the Creation of Meaning From Personally Experienced Events / John J. Skowronski -- 9. How Actors, Agents, and Authors Find Meaning in Life / Dan P. McAdams -- 10. Meaning and Morality: A Natural Coupling / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman -- 11. Wrestling With Our Better Selves: The Search for Meaning in Life / Michael F. Steger -- IV. Teleological Understanding: Explanations for Events -- 12. Searching for and Finding Meaning Following Personal and Collective Traumas / John A. Updegraff -- 13. Spirituality and Meaning Making in Cancer Survivorship / Crystal L. Park -- 14. Finding Silver Linings: Meaning Making as a Compensatory Response to Negative Experiences / Grainne M. Fitzsimons -- 15. Finding Meaning in One's Past: Nostalgia as an Existential Resource / Jacob Juhl -- 16. Twists of Fate: Moments in Time and What Might Have Been in the Emergence of Meaning / Adam D. Galinsky -- 17. "It Was Meant to Be": Retrospective Meaning Construction Through Mental Simulation / Hyeman Choi -- V. Restoring Meaning -- 18. Meaning Making Following Activation of the Behavioral Inhibition System: How Caring Less About What Others Think May Help Us to Make Sense of What Is Going on / Kees van den Bos -- 19. The Embodiment of Meaning Violations / Brenda Major -- 20. Neural and Motivational Mechanics of Meaning and Threat / Ian McGregor -- 21. Still a Thrill: Meaning Making and the Pleasures of Uncertainty / Daniel T. Gilbert -- 22. What Makes Life Meaningful: Positive Mood Works in a Pinch / Laura A. King -- 23. Psychotherapy and the Restoration of Meaning: Existential Philosophy in Clinical Practice / Matthew J. Lindberg. |
| Summary |
From moral philosophy and existentialism to the clinical realm of psychotherapy, The Psychology of Meaning explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Meaning (Psychology)
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Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Meaning (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01013157
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| Added Author |
Markman, Keith D. (Keith Douglas), 1967-
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Proulx, Travis.
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Lindberg, Matthew J.
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Psychology of meaning. 1st ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2013 9781433812248 (DLC) 2012026880 (OCoLC)800352508 |
| ISBN |
9781433812255 |
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1433812258 |
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