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How do we transform scattered experiences into a coherent narrative? What drives us--consciously or unconsciously--to seek patterns, purpose, and understanding? This is the first volume explicitly devoted to the creation of psychological meaning, which has not been systematically defined and studied until recently. Leading authorities from multiple subdisciplines of psychology explore the mechanisms by which humans figure out the world around them, find direction in personal striving, and make sense of the self and one's life. Cutting-edge theories, methods, and findings are clearly explained, as is the key role of meaning making in the functioning of both individuals and societies.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Psychology of Creating Meaning, Ayelet Fishbach, Kentaro Fujita, & Nira Liberman
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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