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Death and science: the existential underpinnings of belief in intelligent design and discomfort with evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The present research examined the psychological motives underlying widespread support for intelligent design theory (IDT), a purportedly scientific theory that lacks any scientific evidence; and antagonism toward evolutionary theory (ET), a theory ...
Jessica L Tracy +2 more
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The Ethical and Existential Meaning of Beauty
DEPARCH Journal of Design Planning and Aesthetics Research, 2022 Ethics and beauty have been neglected subjects in modern artistic and architectural discourse. These essential dimensions have been replaced by performative qualities and a manipulative aestheticization.
Juhani Pallasmaa
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020 When people judge their lives as meaningful, what is this judgment about? Drawing on recent tripartite theoretical accounts of meaning in life (MIL), we tested the separate contributions of coherence (or comprehension), purpose, and existential mattering
Vlad Costin, V. Vignoles
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Meaning and Purpose in Life in Aging: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2023 The feeling that life has meaning or purpose is essential for human beings. Absence of meaning can lead to an existential vacuum. Purpose in life, akin to meaning in life, derives from the humanistic psychology theory of Frankl, and they are considered ...
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Existential Issues in Old Age as Narrated by Older People—An Interview Study from Norway
Religions, 2022 Background: Research about the importance of existential issues and individuals’ responses to them in old age is growing. This study aimed to explore older Norwegians’ thoughts and experiences related to existential issues and whether or not they wanted ...
Åsta Marie Olafsson, Linda Rykkje
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Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy
Religions, 2022 Every life has a beginning and an end. Natality and mortality are both profound existential fundaments of life that may lead us to question meaning in life as well as to find meaning.
Joanna Wojtkowiak, Carmen Schuhmann
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Existential escape of the bored: A review of meaning-regulation processes under boredom
European Review of Social Psychology, 2020 Boredom is a common, unpleasant emotion that conveys meaninglessness in life and compels people to escape from this adverse existential experience. Within the paradigm of social psychology frameworks, previous research found that bored people endorse ...
Andrew B. Moynihan +2 more
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Religions, 2020 Addressing existential and spiritual care needs, often remains a challenge in health education. Spirituality is a subjective human experience that shapes how individuals make meaning, construct knowledge, develop their own sense of reality, and bring ...
Gulnar Ali, Nasreen Lalani
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Burnout syndrome is a state of total exhaustion related to work conditions and stress from work. Recent findings suggest that logotherapy and the concepts of existential meaning and life fulfilment could provide a useful framework for explaining and ...
Norbert Riethof, Petr Bob, Petr Bob
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Analysis of the novel “Show Yourself to Me That I May Look at You” by Khawla Hamdi based on Irvin Yalom's Existential Psychology Theory [PDF]
دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابهاIn recent years, the existential approach in psychology has become one of the prominent and influential approaches, gaining special attention not only among psychological fields but also across interdisciplinary studies, particularly in literature.
Leila Sadeghi Naghdeali +3 more
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