Edward Orehek

TL;DR: Relational regulation theory (RRT) hypothesizes that main effects occur when people regulate their affect, thought, and action through ordinary yet affectively consequential conversations and shared activities, rather than through conversations about how to cope with stress.

TL;DR: In this paper, a motivational analysis of suicidal terrorism is outlined, anchored in the notion of significance quest, and it is suggested that heterogeneous factors identified as personal causes of suicide terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion), the various ideological reasons assumed to justify it (i.e. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one's nation or religion), and the social pressures brought upon candidates for suicidal terrorism may be profitably subsumed within an integrative framework that explains diverse instances of suicidal terrorists as attempts at significance restoration, significance gain, and prevention of significance

TL;DR: Results for enacted support fit social support theory better when social influences were isolated from trait influences, and perceived and enacted support were strongly linked when correlations reflected social influences but not trait influences.

TL;DR: It is suggested that self-love defines a motivational force that when awakened arouses the goal of a significance quest, and may be crucial to reversing the current tide of global terrorism.

TL;DR: A conceptual integration and review of three separate research programmes informed by the theory of lay epistemics is presented in this article, which respectively address the "why", "how", and "who" questions about human knowledge formation.