The Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM; Heine, Proulx, & Vohs, 2006) proposes that human beings innately and automatically assemble mental representations of expected relations. The sense of global meaning that these relations provide is regularly disrupted by unrelated or unrelatable experiences, which elicit feelings of meaninglessness. People respond to these disruptions by engaging in meaning m...

We formulated, tested, and supported, in 6 studies, a theoretical model according to which individuals use nostalgia as a way to reinject meaningfulness in their lives when they experience boredom. Studies 1-3 established that induced boredom causes increases in nostalgia when participants have the opportunity to revert to their past. Studies 4 and 5 examined search for meaning as a mediator of...

This paper explores the essential features of recovery and the need for an existential approach in psychiatry. The biopsychosocial model often fails to sufficiently validate the existential suffering of patients. We review the major principles of recovery and the philosophical and psychiatric principles of existentialism. The ontological or intrinsic existential issues of death, isolation, free...

Researchers have recently argued that utilitarianism is the appropriate framework by which to evaluate moral judgment, and that individuals who endorse non-utilitarian solutions to moral dilemmas (involving active vs. passive harm) are committing an error. We report a study in which participants responded to a battery of personality assessments and a set of dilemmas that pit utilitarian and non...

Objectives. Determine the relationship between depressive symptom clusters and neuropsychological test performance in an elderly cohort of cognitively normal controls and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). Design. Cross-sectional analysis. Setting. Four health science centers in Texas. Participants. 628 elderly individuals (272 diagnosed with mild AD and 356 controls) from ongoing longitudinal stud...

technology and target group Anxiety and depression are two conditions that affect a large percentage of the population. Anxiety refers to an intensive sense of apprehension and distress associated with anticipated danger or harm. The symptoms are distinguished by having both physical and psychological characteristics. Anxiety disorders refer to multiple anxiety symptoms that present concurrentl...

The aim of this article is to discuss pure variable inclusion logics, that is, logical systems where valid entailments require the propositional variables occurring in conclusion are included among those appearing premises, or vice versa. We study subsystems Classical Logic satisfying these requirements and assess extent which it possible characterise them by means a single matrix. In addition,...

After the World War-1, there spread chaos and disillusionment in society, faith got shattered life became meaningless. Jean-Paul Sartre’s version of Existentialism is based on this meaninglessness absurdity. Man faces an absurd meaningless existence chaotic world. Thus these two are main tropes philosophy. T. S. Eliot also lived that age composed his long narrative poem The Waste Land (1930) af...