The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making

By T. Proulx, Michael Inzlicht. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “The UVM (Holbrook et al., 2011) focuses on this proximal aspect of our model, and the MMM explicitly proposes that discrepancy detection and the resulting disanxiousuncertlibrium (Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012) arise from violated expectancies, even if merely perceptual.”
The Making of Violent Extremists (2018, background): “Meaning making theories propose that when situations induce a discrepancy between global and situational meaning, a sense of frustration is induced, and behavior is enacted to regain that meaning (e.g., Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012; Proulx, Heine, & Vohs, 2010).”
Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion (2018, background): “…of interest to evolutionary psychologists and (b) the implicit, intuitive, nonlinguistic and nonconscious processes of making sense of “the world” of interest to cognitive anthropologists (Strauss & Quinn, 1997) and psychologists of meaning (Martela & Steger, 2016; Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012).”
Terror Management Theory and Research: How the Desire for Death Transcendence Drives Our Strivings for Meaning and Significance (2014, unknown): “However, we believe that a recent refinement of the model (Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012) that describes specific ways in which people respond to meaning threats is a step in the right direction.”
Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered (2018, background): “…the motivation to maintain nonspecific closures in discussing “meaning,” defined as “the mental representations that allow us to understand our experiences” (Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012, p. 318), and hence “to understand, [our] world, and [our] relationship to the world” (Proulx & Major, 2013, p. 459).”
Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions (2016, background): “What sets the MMM apart from some of the previously mentioned perspectives on meaning frameworks, is the central focus that MMM places on the aversive arousal that results from inconsistencies in meaning frameworks (Heine et al., 2006; Proulx & 1 These models tend to draw heavily on earlier models o”
The Compensatory Consumer Behavior Model: How self-discrepancies drive consumer behavior (2017, methodology): “Similarly, according to the Meaning Maintenance Model (MMM; Heine et al., 2006; see also Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012), an individual can overcome a discrepancy on one dimension of the self by finding meaning on another dimension.”
The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life (2017, background): “We expected dogmatism to be most strongly related to comprehension, as holding steadfastly to one’s beliefs and dismissing conflicting evidence may provide and maintain a sense of understanding that may otherwise be undermined by doubting one’s own beliefs (Proulx & Inzlicht, 2012).”