#1072 Steven Heine: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a return guest, Dr. Stephen Heine. He is distinguished university scholar and professor of social and cultural psychology at the University of British Columbia. I'm leaving a link in the description box to our first interview, and today we're talking about his latest book, Start Making Sense, How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaning Live Meaningful Lives. In absurd times. So Doctor Heine, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one again. Hi, Ricardo. Great to talk with you again.
Okay, so Let me start by asking you, since we're going to talk about existential psychology today. What is existential psychology and how does it relate to other subfields in psychology? Yeah, well, existential psychology, um, I think you could describe it as the the science of being and becoming. And it's very much um uh
Um use uh an approach using scientific methods to to study questions about how we live our lives. It's uh it's about Trying to uh
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