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Record W2132362858 · doi:10.1177/0022167804266095

On Facing Death: Views of Some Prominent Psychologists

2004· article· en· W2132362858 on OpenAlexaff
Giampaolo Moraglia

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Humanistic Psychology · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicDeath Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTranscendence (philosophy)PsychologySocial psychologyOrientation (vector space)PsychoanalysisEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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This study considers the views on death elaborated by several influential representatives of modern psychology from Gustav Fechner and William James to Carl Rogers and B. F. Skinner. It shows that, despite ample differences in theoretical orientation, it is possible to find in these views a measure of agreement concerning the psychological implications of the adult person’s awareness of death. This limited consensus coalesces around the claim that facing one’s finiteness can promote personal growth in the second half of life; that the psychological encounter with death occurs in many guises; that this confrontation is arduous, for the acknowledgment of one’s mortality is associated with fears and anxieties; and that in such an undertaking one can draw support from beliefs that promote the symbolical transcendence of individual finiteness.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.022
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.095

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.022
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0180.042
Scholarly communication0.0150.010
Open science0.0020.008
Research integrity0.0170.032
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread0.323 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations10
Published2004
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