1st Edition
Feeling Big, Feeling Small The Human Yearning for Significance and Wonder
1. Feeling Big, Feeling Small: An Introduction
2. The Need that Makes the World Go Round
3. The Importance of Being Small
4. Bigness and Smallness on a Seesaw
5. It’ Runs in Our Blood: The Biology of Bigness and Smallness
6. From The Cradle to the Grave: Bigness and Smallness Across the Lifespan
7. The Muse and the Moneymaker: Creativity on the Seesaw
8. Cultures of Bigness and Smallness
9. The Extremes of Bigness and Smallness
10. Of Gods and Humans: Smallness and Bigness in the World’s Religions
11. Mental Health and Bigness/Smallness Dysregulation
12. Love as Dynamic Magnitude: The Interplay of Bigness and Smallness
13. So what?
Index
Biography
Sophia Moskalenko (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Psychology at University of Latvia, Latvia. Her research focuses on extremism, radicalization, political violence, and self-sacrifice. She has consulted the US government, as well as the UN, NATO, and the European Commission, and has published over 90 research articles and several books, including Friction: How Conflict Radicalizes Them and Us; Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon; and Psychology of Extreme.
Arie W. Kruglanski (Ph.D., UCLA) is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, USA, and a co-founding Principal Investigator at START, the national center of excellence for the study of terrorism and the response to terrorism. Kruglanski has published 500 articles and books on basic psychological processes and the psychology of extremism, and received numerous scientific awards including Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for the Science of Motivation, and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science.
