Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology Book

1	Experimental existential psychology : exploring the human confrontation with reality	3
2	The cultural animal : twenty years of terror management theory and research	13
3	The blueprint of terror management : understanding the cognitive architecture of psychological defense against the awareness of death	35
4	A multifaceted perspective on the existential meanings, manifestations, and consequences of the fear of personal death	54
5	The beast within the beauty : an existential perspective on the objectification and condemnation of women	71
6	Paradise lost and reclaimed : a motivational analysis of human-nature relations	86
7	Risk taking in adolescence : "to be or not to be" is not really the question	104
8	Random outcomes and valued commitments : existential dilemmas and the paradox of meaning	122
9	Religion : its core psychological functions	141
10	In search of the moral person : do you have to feel really bad to be good?	156
11	An existentialist approach to the social psychology of fairness : the influence of mortality and uncertainty salience on reactions to fair and unfair events	167
12	Zeal, identity and meaning : going to extremes to be one self	182
13	Nostalgia : conceptual issues and existential functions	200
14	Existential meanings and cultural models : the interplay of personal and supernatural agency in American and Hindu ways of responding to uncertainty	215
15	Cultural trauma and recovery : cultural meaning, self-esteem, and the reconstruction of the cultural anxiety buffer	231
16	Terror's epistemic consequences : existential threat and the quest for certainty and closure	247
17	The ideological animal : a system justification view	263
18	The terror of death and the quest for love : an existential perspective on close relationships	287
19	Transcending oneself through social identification	305
20	Moral amplification and the emotions that attach us to saints and demons	322
21	Ostracism : a metaphor for death	336
22	I-sharing, the problem of existential isolation, and their implications for interpersonal and intergroup phenomena	352
23	Bellezza in interpersonal relations	369
24	Being here now : is consciousness necessary for human freedom?	385
25	Ego depletion, self-control, and choice	398
26	Workings of the will : a functional approach	411
27	The roar of awakening : mortality acknowledgment as a call to authentic living	431
28	Autonomy is no illusion : self-determination theory and the empirical study of authenticity, awareness, and will	449
29	Nonbecoming, alienated becoming, and authentic becoming : a goal-based approach	480
30	The best of two worlds : experimental existential psychology now and in the future	497