Abstract Based on multisited fieldwork in Kigali, Rwanda, Belgium, and the Netherlands following political crisis Burundi 2015, we explore decisions plans for future among Burundians exile. In this way, contribute to research about making social reproduction families a transnational field affected by crisis. Adding literature, show specific effects of families’ practices aspirations, such as pa...

The aging of humanity is about to experience a radical change as the demographic transformation to an older world is approaching its final stage. In recent decades, scientists have learned enough about the biological aging processes that many believe it will become possible to slow aging in humans. We contend that the social, economic, and health benefits that would result from such advances ma...

We live in a time of pressing planetary challenges, many which threaten catastrophic change to the natural environment and require massive novel coordinated scientific societal efforts on an unprecedented scale. Universities other academic institutions have opportunity responsibility assume leading role era when destiny planet is precisely hands human beings. Drawing Planetary Health project pr...

This article examines how people depart from optimality during multiple-goal pursuit. The authors operationalized optimality using dynamic programming, which is a mathematical model used to calculate expected value in multistage decisions. Drawing on prospect theory, they predicted that people are risk-averse when pursuing approach goals and are therefore more likely to prioritize the goal in t...

In spite of impressive empirical evidence consistent with aspects of terror management theory (TMT) reviewed by T. Pyszczynski, J. Greenberg, S. Solomon, J. Arndt, and J. Schimel (2004), several fundamental assumptions of the theory remain untested or lack support. Specifically, Pyszczynski et al. (2004) have not demonstrated that (a) people need self-esteem, (b) pursuing self-esteem is an effe...

Decisions involve two fundamental problems, selecting goals and generating actions to pursue those goals. While simple decisions involve choosing a goal and pursuing it, humans evolved to survive in hostile dynamic environments where goal availability and value can change with time and previous actions, entangling goal decisions with action selection. Recent studies suggest the brain generates ...