The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations

By Steven J. Heine, T. Proulx, Kathleen D. Vohs. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences (2011, neutral): “This is important and of great interest, as past research indicates that the need to re-establishment a sense of meaning has inspired an impressive amount of empirical work that identified many consequences of meaning-threats on people’s attitudes and behaviors (for overviews, see Greenberg et al., ”
Meaning in life: nature, needs, and myths (2014, background): “Several subsequent thinkers also suggest that people have a need to find meaning in life (Baumesiter 1991; Berger 1967; Heine et al. 2006; Klinger 2012; Maslow 1968).”
Prosociality enhances meaning in life (2016, background): “Insofar as prosociality operates as a source of meaning, individuals should have bolstered perceptions of virtue to regain a sense of meaningfulness (e.g. Heine et al., 2006; Van Tongeren & Green, 2010; Van Tongeren et al., in press).”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, neutral): “Individuals are strongly motivated to build and maintain a sense of meaningfulness and to avoid feeling alienated from the rest of the world (Heine et al., 2006), and hence there is a primary drive to eliminate or control the sense that work is lacking in meaningfulness.”
The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making (2012, background): “Nevertheless, it is very likely Heine, Proulx, and Vohs (2006) were familiar with all of these theorists when they put together the first overview of the meaning maintenance model (MMM).”
Death and Black Diamonds: Meaning, Mortality, and the Meaning Maintenance Model (2006, background): “The Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM) elaborates on this existential hypothesis, proposing that human beings innately and automatically assemble mental representations of expected relations, systems that they strive to make coherent and consistent (for a more in depth discussion, see Heine, Proulx, &”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “Another study found that when participants’ meanings were threatened, participants shifted their attention to alternate sources of meaning (Heine et al., 2006).”