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Experimental Existential Psychology: Coping With the Facts of Life
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20.1 Costs of Evolutionary Adaptation: Problems Created by Intelligence 20.2 No One here Gets Out Alive 20.3 What does it all Mean? 20.4 Relating to Other People and Groups 20.5 Self and Identity 20.6 Freedom and Will 20.7 Experimental Existential Psychology Today and into the Future 20.8 Summary
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“People develop an “anxiety buffering system” (Zaleskiewicz, Gasiorowska, Kesebir, Luszczynska, & Pyszczynski, 2013, p. 56) that helps protect them against existential fragility and furnishes them with psychological equanimity (Pyszczynski et al., 2010; Zaleskiewicz et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., Koole, S., & Solomon, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Skidmore College (US)
- Venue
- Handbook of Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-06-30
- OpenAlex
- W1929554846
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 264
- Citations by year
- 2025: 8 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 8
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- existential psychology, adaptive evolution, intelligence, meaning, interpersonal relationships, self and identity, experimental psychology
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