The science of meaning in life

LA King, JA Hicks - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Meaning in life has long been a mystery of human existence. In this review, we seek to
demystify this construct. Focusing on the subjective experience of meaning in life, we review …

Resilience in cancer patients

A Seiler, J Jenewein - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing its treatment are associated with
substantial distress that can cause long-lasting negative psychological outcomes …

Positive psychology in a pandemic: Buffering, bolstering, and building mental health

L Waters, SB Algoe, J Dutton, R Emmons… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As the COVID-19 global health disaster continues to unfold across the world, calls have
been made to address the associated mental illness public crisis. The current paper seeks to …

The 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders

GS Malhi, E Bell, D Bassett, P Boyce… - Australian & New …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To provide advice and guidance regarding the management of mood disorders,
derived from scientific evidence and supplemented by expert clinical consensus to formulate …

Post-traumatic growth and stress-related responses during the COVID-19 pandemic in a national representative sample: The role of positive core beliefs about the …

C Vazquez, C Valiente, FE García, A Contreras… - Journal of happiness …, 2021 - Springer
Given the need to understand both the negative and positive psychological consequences
of the current global COVID-19 pandemic (Brewin et al. in Perspectives in Public Health …

Awe as a pathway to mental and physical health

M Monroy, D Keltner - Perspectives on psychological science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or
with psychedelics promote mental and physical health? Our proposal in this article is awe …

The partisan brain: An identity-based model of political belief

JJ Van Bavel, A Pereira - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Democracies assume accurate knowledge by the populace, but the human attraction to fake
and untrustworthy news poses a serious problem for healthy democratic functioning. We …

Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain

JW Van Prooijen, KM Douglas - European journal of social …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this introduction to the EJSP Special Issue on conspiracy theories as a social
psychological phenomenon, we describe how this emerging research domain has …

Online gaming addiction and basic psychological needs among adolescents: the mediating roles of meaning in life and responsibility

A Kaya, N Türk, H Batmaz, MD Griffiths - International journal of mental …, 2024 - Springer
Individuals whose basic needs are naturally satisfied are much less dependent on their
environment and more autonomous. Basic psychological needs (ie, the general motivators …

Conspiracy theories as part of history: The role of societal crisis situations

JW Van Prooijen, KM Douglas - Memory studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the present contribution, we examine the link between societal crisis situations and belief
in conspiracy theories. Contrary to common assumptions, belief in conspiracy theories has …