xv, 528 p. : 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Experimental Existential Psychology: Exploring the Human Confrontation with Reality / Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sander L. Koole -- Existential Realities -- The Cultural Animal: Twenty Years of Terror Management Theory and Research / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski -- The Blueprint of Terror Management: Understanding the Cognitive Architecture of Psychological Defense against the Awareness of Death / Jamie Arndt, Alison Cook, Clay Routledge -- A Multifaceted Perspective on the Existential Meanings, Manifestations, and Consequences of the Fear of Personal Death / Victor Florian, Mario Mikulincer -- The Beast within the Beauty: An Existential Perspective on the Objectification and Condemnation of Women / Jamie L. Goldenberg, Tomi-Ann Roberts -- Paradise Lost and Reclaimed: A Motivational Analysis of Human-Nature Relations / Sander L. Koole, Agnes E. van den Berg -- Risk Taking in Adolescence: "To Be or Not to Be" Is Not Really the Question / Orit Taubman - Ben-Ari -- Random Outcomes and Valued Commitments: Existential Dilemmas and the Paradox of Meaning / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman, Darren J. Yopyk -- Systems of Meaning and Value -- Religion: Its Core Psychological Functions / C. Daniel Batson, E. L. Stocks -- In Search of the Moral Person: Do You Have to Feel Really Bad to Be Good? / June Price Tangney, Debra J. Mashek -- 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 -- Zeal, Identity, and Meaning: Going to Extremes to Be One Self / Ian McGregor -- Nostalgia: Conceptual Issues and Existential Functions / Constantine Sedikides, Tim Wildschut, Denise Baden -- 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 -- Cultural Trauma and Recovery: Cultural Meaning, Self-Esteem, and the Reconstruction of the Cultural Anxiety Buffer / Michael B. Salzman, Michael J. Halloran -- Terror's Epistemic Consequences: Existential Threat and the Quest for Certainty and Closure / Mark Dechesne, Arie W. Kruglanski -- The Ideological Animal: A System Justification View / John T. Jost, Grainne Fitzsimons, Aaron C. Kay -- The Human Connection -- The Terror of Death and the Quest for Love: An Existential Perspective on Close Relationships / Mario Mikulincer, Victor Florian, Gilad Hirschberger -- Transcending Oneself through Social Identification / Emanuele Castano, Vincent Yzerbyt, Maria-Paola Paladino -- Moral Amplification and the Emotions That Attach Us to Saints and Demons / Jonathan Haidt, Sara Algoe -- Ostracism: A Metaphor for Death / Trevor I. Case, Kipling D. Williams -- 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 -- Bellezza in Interpersonal Relations / Robert A. Wicklund, Renate Vida-Grim -- Freedom and the Will -- Being Here Now: Is Consciousness Necessary for Human Freedom? / John A. Bargh -- Ego Depletion, Self-Control, and Choice / Kathleen D. Vohs, Roy F. Baumeister -- Workings of the Will: A Functional Approach / Julius Kuhl, Sander L. Koole -- The Roar of Awakening: Mortality Acknowledgment as a Call to Authentic Living / Leonard L. Martin, W. Keith Campbell, Christopher D. Henry -- Autonomy Is No Illusion: Self-Determination Theory and the Empirical Study of Authenticity, Awareness, and Will / Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci -- Nonbecoming, Alienated Becoming, and Authentic Becoming: A Goal-Based Approach / Tim Kasser, Kennon M. Sheldon -- Postmortem -- The Best of Two Worlds: Experimental Existential Psychology Now and in the Future / Sander L. Koole, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski

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