When I started a course in English, the teacher explained that we were all to give presentation on chosen subject, but he did not want hear another one F1 and Mika Häkkinen! This shows there is only an interest watching TV, also exploring subject talking about explaining facts sport. seem discern current debate meaningfulness versus meaninglessness of Formula 1. myself have found fairly meaning...

Abstract The absence of meaningfulness in life is meaninglessness. But what the polar opposite meaningfulness? In recent and ongoing work together with Stephen Campbell Marcello di Paola respectively, I have explored we dub ‘anti-meaning’: negative counterpart positive meaning life. Here, relate this idea ‘anti-meaningful’ actions, activities, projects to topic death, particular deaths or suffe...

Abstract Existential philosophy addressed questions that either had been overlooked by traditional for a long period of time (e g the individual’s experience anxiety in face death, failure rational thinking and science to inquire essential aspects human life) or resurfaced again following disappointment caused destructions absurdity two world wars first half twentieth century pertaining meaning...

Preface MODELS, METHODS, AND MEASUREMENT Dreams of mathematical laws in psychology have persisted for well over a century in the fields of perception and psychophysics. In modern times, mathematical models have been prominent in judgment–decision and in learning. Mathematical models have also been proposed in social– personality, including integration models for attitudes (Chapter 7) and equit...

Does poverty have psychological consequences? Beginning with Easterlin (1974), a growing literature has investigated the association between income levels and psychological outcomes. However, this literature remains focused on happiness and life satisfaction, while little evidence exists about the link between income and other psychological outcomes. Using World Value Survey data from 114,378 r...

Dialogical Self Theory has contributed to the endeavors to map and grid self-identity work in transition from military to civilian life throughout an empirical and longitudinal research project which focuses on existential dimensions. This article is based on a case study from this project and centers upon Sergeant Jonas, who, upon his return from deployment in Afghanistan, struggled with his t...

In considering Hannah Arendt’s philosophical debt to Nietzsche, commentators have often drawn attention to the figure of the promise and to its central significance in the work of both thinkers. “The real problem regarding man,” as Nietzsche famously wrote in the programmatic opening remarks to the second essay from On the Genealogy of Morals, is how “to breed an animal with the right to make p...

Addictions to smoking, alcohol, illicit drugs, and certain behaviors like gambling, overeating, and sex, are prevalent worldwide. These behaviors are highly destructive and costly to individuals and society due to health consequences, criminality and lost productivity. The genetic vulnerability, environmental exposures, and individual behaviors that contribute to the brain dysfunction and compu...

The aim of this study was to explore the paths between interparental conflict and Chinese adolescents' suicidal ideation. Altogether 931 adolescents (Mage = 17.84, SD = 0.77, females = 531) completed the Dyadic Consensus Scale, Self-Report Coping Scale, Meaning in Life Questionnaire, and Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation questionnaires. Mediation analyses were conducted, focusing on the re...

This research paper seeks to study the juxtaposition of antithetical forces in text The Fault Our Stars penned down by John Green. centers on characters' quest for finding an answer meaninglessness, attempts filling void, facticity, existential angst, and ultimate despair framework philosophy 'Existentialism' posited Jean-Paul Sartre. All major characters novel are cancer patients, living a dis...