Travis Hawkins
Independent Research, Co, Concept Association, Inc, USA
Publications
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Review Article
Worldview Coherence is Not Optional
Author(s): Travis Hawkins*
Human development, affect regulation, and health risk are typically studied as partially independent domains. Here, we integrate these domains into a single developmental–epistemological framework linking worldview coherence (WV), cultural narcissism (CN), affective dysregulation, harm enactment, physiological load, and downstream mortality risk (DR). Using 815 outcome-level effects from over 150 independent studies (cumulative N > 350,000), we show that DR is structured not additively, but by a nonlinear interaction between WV and CN. When low WV co-occurs with elevated CN, downstream risk escalates sharply (R2 ≈ .79), consistent with activation of a self-reinforcing anger- loop cascade. Developmental progression via the progression of virtues (PV) attenuates this cascade (R2 ≈ .36), while higher-order stages correspond to a qualitative regime shift marked by the.. Read More»