Jonah Li’s research studies meaning and purpose in life and the impact of free will and determinism beliefs on meaning.
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Shoko Watanabe’s research explores stability and change in religious doubt and engagement.
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Alex Sielaff’s research studies the relationships between mystical experiences, existential isolation, and meaning in life.
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Tessa van der Willigen’s work advances our understanding of the experience of autonomy.
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Stylianos Syropolous’s research studies impact-oriented and reputation-focused intergenerational concerns in legacy motivations.
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Sheila Umemoto’s research explores resilience against suicide, especially among soldiers.
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Kasia Cantarero’s research explored how other-oriented appraisals of work influenced meaning and engagement at work.
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Lisa Blatz’s research explores ways to measure the emotional experiences of freedom.
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Abdo Elnakouri’s research focuses on existential function of secret truths and privileged knowledge.
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Alexis Goad’s research explores the impact of culture and lived experience on authenticity in Native American identities.
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Frank Martela’s research focuses on the role of benevolence in the experience of meaning in life.
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Mira Gruber won the 2020 Undergraduate Student Travel Award for research focused on robot caregiving and death-related existential concern.
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Peter Helm’s research explores ways to measure the experience of existential isolation.
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Ron Chau’s research explores the effects of death awareness and mindfulness on goal priorities and well-being.
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Dylan Horner’s research explores the roles of death anxiety and authenticity on motivation and well-being.
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Madhwa Galgali’s research examined how death awareness impacted religious intuitions and expressed faith among religious believers and atheists.
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Gülnaz Kiper’s research examines the way various difficulty mindsets impact one’s sense of purpose, meaning in life, and behavioral commitment to one’s goals.
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Harrison Schmitt won the 2021 Innovation in Existential Psychology Research Award for multi-method research on the cultural experience of suffering and resilience after environmental contamination.
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McKenzie Lockett’s research focuses on the intersection of sexual objectification of women, existential isolation, and mental health.
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Madison Sarlo won the 2021 Undergraduate Student Registration Award for research focused on death awareness and political unity in America.
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