In honour of Jack Brehm's contributions to contemporary psychology, this volume revolves around the focus of most of his work - motivation and emotion in social context. It demonstrates Jack Brehm's enormous influence on the field by highlighting how others have taken his ideas and expanded upon them, especially in the areas of dissonance and reactance processes and motivational and emotional intensity. influence. It begins with two personal chapters, one written by the book's editors, and the other by Jack's oldest friend in academia, Peter Schonbach. The remaining chapters provide current...

Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook...