Meaning, Mortality, and Choice: The Social Psychology of Existential Concerns

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I
The Problem of Finitude
	Chapter 1
Terror Management Theory: From Genesis to Revelations
	Chapter 2 Helplessness: A Hidden Liability Associated With Failed Defenses Against Awareness of Death
	Chapter 3 A Significant Contributor to a Meaningful Cultural Drama: Terror Management Research on the Functions and Implications of Self-Esteem
	Chapter 4 Culture, Ideology, Morality, and Religion: Death Changes Everything
	Chapter 5
A Body of Terror: Denial of Death and the Creaturely Body
	Chapter 6 The Impermanence of All Things: An Existentialist Stance on Personal and Social Change
Part II
The Threat of Meaninglessness
	Chapter 7
Meaning: Ubiquitous and Effortless
	Chapter 8
Religion as a Source of Meaning
	Chapter 9
Becoming and Developing: Personal Growth in the Wake of Parenthood and Grandparenthood
	Chapter 10 Deriving Solace From a Nemesis: Having Scapegoats and Enemies Buffers the Threat of Meaninglessness
	Chapter 11 Terrorism as Means to an End: How Political Violence Bestows Significance
Part III
The Challenge of Freedom
	Chapter 12 Beyond Illusions and Defense: Exploring the Possibilities and Limits of Human Autonomy and Responsibility Through Self-Determination Theory
	Chapter 13
Conditional Regard in Close Relationships
	Chapter 14 Removing the Constraints on Our Choices: A Psychobiological Approach to the Effects of Mindfulness-Based Techniques
	Chapter 15
Choice, Freedom, and Autonomy
Part IV
Connection Versus Isolation and Loneliness
	Chapter 16 An Attachment Perspective on Coping With Existential Concerns
	Chapter 17 Ostracism: The Impact of Being Rendered Meaningless
	Chapter 18 Why People Die by Suicide: Further Development and Tests of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior
Part V
Overcoming Existential Threats and Challenges
	Chapter 19 The Case of Allison: An Existential-Integrative Inquiry Into Death Anxiety, Groundlessness, and the Quest for Meaning and Awe
	Chapter 20
Separation Theory and Voice Therapy Methodology
	Chapter 21
Acceptance and Commitment to Chosen Values in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Part VI
Synthesis
	Chapter 22 The Social Psychology of Meaning, Mortality, and Choice: An Integrative Perspective on Existential Concerns
Index
About the Editors