Table of Contents
Introduction; Joshua A. Hicks and Clay Routledge.- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 1. The Four Needs for Meaning, the Value gap, and How (and Whether) Society Can Fill the Void; A. Will Crescioni and Roy F. Baumeister.- Chapter 2. A Terror Management Perspective on the Creation and Defense of Meaning; Daniel Sullivan, Spee Kosloff and Jeff Greenberg.- Chapter 3. I Die, therefore I Am: The Pursuit of Meaning in the Light of Death; Philip J. Cozzolino and Laura E. R. Blackie.- Chapter 4. Meaning Maintenance Model: Introducing Soren to Existential Social Psychology; Travis Proulx.- Chapter 5. Trauma and Meaning Making: Converging Conceptualizations and Emerging Evidence; Crystal L. Park.- Chapter 6. Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life in a Hostile World: Proposing a Configurative Perspective; Dov Shmotkin and Amit Shrira.- Chapter 7. The Origins of Meaning: Objective Reality, the Unconscious Mind, and Awareness; Samantha J. Heintzelman and Laura A. King.- Part II. Cognition, Decision Making, and Motivational Processes.- Chapter 8. Destiny is in the Details: Action Identification in the Construction and Destruction of Meaning; Jay L. Michaels, Steven S. Parkin and Robin R. Vallacher.- Chapter 9. Emotions and Meaning in Life: A Motivational Perspective; David Tang, Nicholas J. Kelley, Joshua A. Hicks and Eddie Harmon-Jones.- Chapter 10. Meaning and the Horizon of Interpretation: How Goals Structure Our Experience of the World; Jacob B. Hirsh.- Chapter 11. The Meaning of Hope and Vice Versa: Goal-Directed Thinking and the Construction of a Meaningful Life; David B. Feldman.- Chapter 12. Any Second Could Be the Second: How Thinking about What Might Have Been Affects the Emergence of Meaning and Commitment across the Adult Life Span; Hal E. Hershfield, Courtney E. Brown and Laura J.Kray.- Chapter 13. Judgments of Meaning in Life Following Existential Crises; William E. Davis and Joshua A. Hicks.- Part III. Self, Identity, and Individual Differences.- Chapter 14. Examining the True Self as a Wellspring of Meaning; Rebecca J. Schlegel, Christina M. Smith, and Kelly A. Hirsch.- Chapter 15. Finding Meaning in the Mirror: The Existential Pursuits of Narcissists; Constantine Sedikides, Claire M. Hart, Sylwia Z. Cisek, and Clay Routledge.- Chapter 16. “But Wait, It Gets Even Weirder…”: The Meaning of Stories; Kate C. McLean and Sarah Morrison-Cohen.- Chapter 17. Nostalgia Bolsters Perceptions of a Meaningful Self in a Meaningful World; Jacob Juhl and Clay Routledge.- Chapter 18. Hardiness as the Existential Courage to Grow through Searching for Meaning; Salvatore R. Maddi.- Chapter 19. Generativity and the Meaning of Life; Ed de St. Aubin.- Chapter 20. Unique Contributions of Religion to Meaning; A. Taylor Newton and Daniel N. McIntosh.- Chapter 21. Death, the Need for Unambiguous Knowledge, and the Construction and Maintenance of Multi-Level Meaning; Matthew Vess.- Part IV. Culture and Interpersonal Processes.- Chapter 22. Attachment Orientations and Meaning in Life; Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver.- Chapter 23. The Bidirectional Relationship of Meaning and Belonging; Tyler F. Stillman and Nathaniel M. Lambert.- Chapter 24. Culture: The Grand Web of Meanings; Melody Manchi Chao and Pelin Kesebir.- Chapter 25. Is Happiness a Moving Target? The Relationship between Residential Mobility and Meaning in Life; Casey Eggleston and Shigehiro Oishi.- Part V. Applications.- Chapter 26. Multi-Layered Meanings in Health Decision Making: A Terror Management Health Model Analysis; Simon McCabe, Kenneth E. Vail III, Jamie Arndt , and Jamie Goldenberg.- Chapter 27. Cultivating Meaningfulness at Work; Bryan J. Dik, Michael F. Steger,Arissa R. Fitch-Martin and Casey C. Onder.- Chapter 28. A Meaning-Based Intervention for Addiction: Using Narrative Therapy and Mindfulness to Treat Alcohol Abuse; Jefferson A. Singer, Bruce F. Singer and Meredith Berry.- Chapter 29. Life, Drugs, and the Making of Meaning; Joseph De Leo and Mitch Earleywine.- Chapter 30. Meaning in Life as the Aim of Psychotherapy: A Hypothesis; Thaddeus Metz.