Death anxiety is considered to be a basic fear underlying the development and maintenance
of numerous psychological conditions. Treatment of transdiagnostic constructs, such as …

The updated edition of the essential guide to environmental psychology Thoroughly revised
and updated, the second edition, Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers an …

People endorse conspiracy theories particularly when they experience existential threat, that
is, feelings of anxiety or uncertainty often because of distressing societal events. At the same …

One of the enduring missions of personality science is to unravel what it takes to become a
fully functioning person. In the present article, the authors address this matter from the …

Background: The global outbreak of COVID-19set new challenges and threats for every
human being. In the psychological field it is similar to deep existential crises or a traumatic …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

The meaning maintenance model (MMM) proposes that people have a needfor meaning;
that is, a need to perceive events through a prism of mental representations of expected …

Boredom is a common experience that affects people on multiple levels, including their
thoughts, feelings, motivations, and actions. Not much research, however, has examined …

While I write this chapter, millions of people in the Darfur province of Sudan have been
terrorized off their land; the entire population of Iraq has little idea what the future of their …

Dr. Mruk has produced a highly readable new edition of his original work on an often
misunderstood psychological construct--self-esteem. Mruk's view that self-esteem is a …