The Psychological Quest for Meaning

I. Creating Meaning to Understand the World

2. The Idiosyncratic Nature of Evaluation, Alexander Todorov & Daniel N. Albohn

3. Means and Meanings in Measurement, Sam J. Maglio

4. From Words to Bonds: The Science of Meaningful Conversations, Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon Burns, Abigail S. Weber, Emily B. Falk, & Diana I. Tamir

5. Constructing Meaning through Communication: On Distance and Gender and Their Impact on Communicative Abstraction, Cheryl Wakslak

II. Creating Meaning to Find Direction in Personal Striving

6. Making Meaning through Motivated Perception: The Role of Construal, Jenna P. Landy, Jordan S. Daley, & Emily Balcetis

7. The Meaning of Multitasking: Why Activity Identification Matters When Engaging in Multiple Activities, Emily Nakkawita & E. Tory Higgins

8. Goals Shape Meaning, Ayelet Fishbach & Jiabi Wang

9. On Control Readiness: The Constant Interplay between Conflict and Control, Tali Kleiman

10. What People Understand about Expanding and Contracting Regulatory Scope, Jessica J. Carnevale & Kentaro Fujita

III. Creating Meaning in Life

11. Changing Views of Implicit Cognition and Conscious Thinking, Melissa J. Ferguson & Ran R. Hassin

12. From Self-Discontinuity to Meaning through Nostalgia, Constantine Sedikides & Tim Wildschut

13. Continuity in Psychological Space Creates a Sense of Meaning in Life, Nira Liberman

14. Significance-Questing or Awe-Stricken: On Two Paradigms of Meaning, Sophia Moskalenko & Arie W. Kruglanski

IV. Closing Remarks

15. Meaning Making in the Mind and Society, Yaacov Trope

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