Mark Smith


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The Need for Meaning

Psychologists Dr Proulx and Professor Heine at the University of British Columbia have published a number of papers on what they call a: meaning maintenance model" in which people continually strive to preserve a functioning meaning framework. When people encounter a threat to their meaning, be it through a self-esteem threat, feelings of uncertainty, mortality salience, or witnessing a scene that does not make sense, they need to... (posted by Mark 2 years 179 days ago.)