From moral philosophy and existentialism to the clinical realm of psychotherapy, The Psychology of Meaning explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. The volume's contributors examine meaning along five dimensions - the architecture of meaning, responding to uncertainty, meaning from retrospection, compensating for meaning violations, and restoring meaning: physiological and neurocognitive mechanisms.
The editors of this groundbreaking work bring together top researchers and scholars to explore the crucial intersection of the psychological and philosophical dimensions of psychic life. Contributors to this sweeping survey examine not only the many phenomenological aspects of meaning, but also the clinical aspects of people's reactions to the loss of meaning, to uncertainty, and to meaning violations - when things that were once central to one's life no longer make much sense.
The book concludes with a scholarly, clinical survey of how psychotherapy can help restore meaning in the face of persistent meaning violations.
Written for scholars and students in introductory or advanced social psychology courses, The Psychology of Meaning will also appeal to clinicians specialising in existential-humanistic psychotherapy.
From moral philosophy and existentialism to the clinical realm of psychotherapy, The Psychology of Meaning explores the multifaceted nature of this highly subjective construct. The volume's contributors examine meaning along five dimensions - the architecture of meaning, responding to uncertainty, meaning from retrospection, compensating for meaning violations, and restoring meaning: physiological and neurocognitive mechanisms.
The editors of this groundbreaking work bring together top researchers and scholars to explore the crucial intersection of the psychological and philosophical dimensions of psychic life. Contributors to this sweeping survey examine not only the many phenomenological aspects of meaning, but also the clinical aspects of people's reactions to the loss of meaning, to uncertainty, and to meaning violations - when things that were once central to one's life no longer make much sense.
The book concludes with a scholarly, clinical survey of how psychotherapy can help restore meaning in the face of persistent meaning violations.
Written for scholars and students in introductory or advanced social psychology courses, The Psychology of Meaning will also appeal to clinicians specialising in existential-humanistic psychotherapy.
Contributors
I. The Architecture of Meaning
II. Epistemic Understanding
III. Teleological Understanding: A Guide for Living
IV. Teleological Understanding: Explanations for Events
V. Restoring Meaning
Index
About the Editors
Keith D. Markman, PhD, is an associate professor of
psychology at Ohio University, where he is a member of the social
judgment and behavioral decision-making program.
Dr. Markman received his doctorate in 1994 at Indiana University
and completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at The Ohio State
University. He conducts research in the areas of counterfactual
thinking, creativity, and psychological momentum and has published
over 40 articles and book chapters in these areas.
Dr. Markman is currently an associate editor of Social and
Personality Psychology Compass, was nominated for the 2003
Theoretical Innovation Prize in social and personality psychology,
and won the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Ohio University in
2004. His edited volume, The Handbook of Imagination and Mental
Simulation, was published in 2009.
Travis Proulx, PhD, is an assistant professor in the
Department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University's School of
Social and Behavioral Sciences in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Dr. Proulx received a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies
at the University of British Columbia and went on to receive a
doctorate in developmental psychology. He subsequently completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in social psychology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Drawing from these diverse perspectives, Dr. Proulx has worked in
collaboration on the meaning maintenance model — a
discipline-spanning framework that offers an integrated account of
inconsistency compensation phenomena. His research focuses on the
common ways that people respond to a wide array of meaning
violations, ranging from absurdist humor to the absurdity of human
mortality.
Matthew J. Lindberg, PhD, is a visiting researcher in the
Department of Psychological Sciences at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Lindberg received his doctorate in 2010 at Ohio University and
subsequently joined the Department of Psychology at Fayetteville
State University as an assistant professor. His research focuses on
how people think about the world and people around them, and how
such thoughts affect their emotions, motivations, and
behaviors.
Dr. Lindberg has conducted research on counterfactual thinking,
creativity, meaning, conscious and unconscious thinking, and jury
decision-making.
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