Finding Meaning in Nostalgia

Finding Meaning in Neuroaesthetics

How might neuroaesthetics move beyond beauty and begin to study meaning? While neuroaesthetics is broadly concerned with the brain’s role in processing art, it has typically focused on perceptual preferences concerning the question of beauty. To cut deeper ontologically the field might consider exploring other basic kinds of meaningful categorical judgments people routinely make about artifacts...

Finding Meaning in Psychology

In this chapter, I explore several themes in connection with a selective review of some research problems I have pursued over the years. The study of meaning is a major theme along with issues relating to the goals of scientific psychology and the demands of research on applied problems. Finally, I ponder the role of psychology in the broader scientific endeavor, and I propose a candidate for t...

Finding Meaning of Clusters

Clustering is an important data exploration task in chance discovery as well as in data mining. The first hierarchical clustering dates back to 1951 by K. Florek; since then, there have been numerous algorithms. However, there is no consensus among researchers as to what constitutes a cluster; the choice of the cluster is application-dependent. Although clustering is sometimes evaluated by inte...

Losing a child: finding meaning in bereavement

BACKGROUND Confronting the loss of a loved one leads us to the core questions of human existence. Bereaved parents have to deal with the rupture of a widely shared concept of what is perceived to be the natural course of life and are forced into meaning reconstruction. OBJECTIVE This study aims to expand upon existing work concerning specific themes of meaning reconstruction in a sample of be...

Reminiscence therapy: finding meaning in memories.