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 …

Terror management theory postulates that mortality salience (MS) increases the motivation
to defend one's cultural worldviews. How that motivation is expressed may depend on the …

Meaning in life reflects the feeling that one's existence has significance, purpose, and
coherence (see Heintzelman and King, 2014). A growing body of research identifies …

As you flick through these pages, you might be asking yourself “why another edition of the
Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology?” The editors of the 2010 first edition …

死亡心理是人类面临死亡及相关事件时所产生的认知, 情感和行为意向的复杂心理状态. 目前,
研究死亡心理较为全面和科学的理论是恐惧管理理论(Terror Management Theory, 简称TMT) …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has created an environment in which existence is
more fragile and existential fears or terror rises in people. Objective: Managing existential …

How does climate change threat affect attitudes towards ethnic and religious minorities and
climate change refugees? We show that threatening climate change can have deep …

Previous research suggests that receiving a charity donation could induce gratitude but
threaten self‐esteem. We investigated if peer charity donations from typical children benefit …

Objective A sense of meaning in life (MIL) is thought to help protect people against
experiencing explicit anxiety about death. However, the experience of meaning is complex …

Background: How people face mortality is a crucial matter for medicine. Yet, there is not a
coherent and comprehensive understanding of how people can process the experience …