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Showing posts with label Meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meaning. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics

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Aaron Rabinowitz The Skeptic 22nd November 2024 We need to talk about men. As of the most recent vote counts, 60% of white American men vote...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Unpacking the pursuit of happiness: Being concerned about happiness but not aspiring to happiness is linked with negative meta-emotions and worse well-being.

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Zerwas, F. K., Ford, B. Q., John, O. P., & Mauss, I. B. (2024). Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001381 ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

On Edge: Understanding and Preventing Young Adults’ Mental Health Challenges

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Making Caring Common. (2023). https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/on-edge From the Executive Summary Our recent data suggests that the young...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

How to Maintain Hope in an Age of Catastrophe

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Masha Gessen The Atlantic Originally posted 12 Nov 23 Gessen interviews psychoanalyst and author Robert Jay Lifton.  Here is an excerpt from...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Meaning from movement and stillness: Signatures of coordination dynamics reveal infant agency

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Sloan, A. T., Jones, N. A., et al. (2023). PNAS, 120 (39) e2306732120 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.230673212  Abstract How do human beings m...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless

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Walo, S. (2023). Employment and Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231175771 Abstract Recent studies show that many workers cons...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Fairytales have always reflected the morals of the age. It’s not a sin to rewrite them

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Martha Gill The Guardian Originally posted 4 June 23 Here are two excerpts: General outrage greeted “woke” updates to Roald Dahl books this ...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence, superefficiency and the end of work: a humanistic perspective on meaning in life

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Knell, S., Rüther, M. AI Ethics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00273-w Abstract How would it be assessed from an ethical point ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Meaning in Life in AI Ethics—Some Trends and Perspectives

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Nyholm, S., Rüther, M.  Philos. Technol. 36, 20 (2023).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00620-z Abstract In this paper, we discuss the r...
Thursday, March 9, 2023

Seeing your life story as a Hero's Journey increases meaning in life

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B. Rogers, H. Chicas, J. M. Kelly, & E. Kubin researchgate.com Originally posted January 2023 Abstract Meaning in life is tied to the st...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

You Can't Win at Morality

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Kurt Gray, Will Blakey, and Carlos Rebollar Moral Understanding Substack Originally posted 26 OCT 22 Here is an excerpt: Moral Ideals Most o...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

America Is Pursuing Happiness in All the Wrong Places

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Arthur Brooks The Atlantic Originally posted 16 NOV 22 Here are two excerpt: As a social scientist, I believe that happiness should be under...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

When Good People Break Bad: Moral Impression Violations in Everyday Life

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Guan, K. W., & Heine, S. J. (2022). Social Psychological and Personality Science.  https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221076685 Abstract Th...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Hidden wisdom or pseudo-profound bullshit? The effect of speaker admirability

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Kara-Yakoubian, et al. (2021, October 28). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tpnkw Abstract How do people reason in response to ambiguous mess...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Hate and meaning in life: How collective, but not personal, hate quells threat and spurs meaning in life

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A. Elnakouri, C. Hubley, & I. McGregor Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Volume 98, January 2022, Abstract Classic and contempor...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Death as Something We Make

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Mara Buchbinder sapiens.org Originally published 8 April 2021 Here are two excerpts: While I learned a lot about what drives people to MAID ...
Friday, April 9, 2021

The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life

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Prinzing, M., De Freitas, J., & Fredrickson, B.  (2020, May 5).  https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6sx4t Abstract The desire for a meaning...
Monday, July 6, 2020

HR researchers discovered the real reason why stressful jobs are killing us

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Arianne Cohen fastcompany.com Originally posted 20 May 20 Your job really might kill you: A new study directly correlates on-the-job str...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

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Donna Lu New Scientist Originally post 6 May 20 The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts rec...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

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Derek Thompson The Atlantic Originally published 24 Feb 20 Here is an excerpt: The decline of traditional faith in America has coincid...