"Existential" is Dictionary.com's 2019 Word Of the Year, the organization announced Monday. The word won out over other crisis-themed words and phrases including "polar vortex," "stochastic terrorism" ...

An existential crisis is a recurring pattern of thoughts regarding your identity, purpose in life, and legacy, among other things. Existential questions may appear at any point in your life and can ...

In a new study on the impact of doomscrolling from an existential perspective, researchers warn that habitual checking of disturbing stories on social media is linked with changes to how we view ...

ISIS is the apparent perpetrator of the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. But does the group -- also known as ISIL or the Islamic State -- pose an "existential threat" to the United ...

Life is filled with a lot of big questions: What’s the point? What’s the meaning? Why am I here? Existential theory tries to answer a lot of those questions to help people find meaning and ...

Worrying about threats to our lives and societies is stressful. It may also change how we think, in unsettling ways. If you’ve even glanced at the headlines recently, you’ll probably have found ...

If your 2019 went anything like ours, it sounded a lot like this: “What is happening? What does it all mean? How long will the human species stay alive if the planet’s on fire?” They’re all powerful ...

In my opening address at the first International Conference on Existential Psychology held in Nanjing, China, in 2010, I stated, “Existential psychology began in the West, but it does not belong to ...