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Meaning of meaning: Landau and I integrate ideas from special issue, on four grand questions about meaning: What is it? how cause behavior? made or found? personal or social? researchgate.net/publication/32…

Future is not a single path but multiple possibilities, the "matrix of maybe." Humans alone think that way, and it is a powerful key to understanding prospection. See theory & review of findings. with @HSjaastad researchgate.net/publication/32…

NBA playoffs: Both series fit pattern of home field disadvantage (choke) in ultimate game. Both home teams (Boston, Houston) go stone cold on skill (3 point shots) down stretch with title on line. See JPSP 1984. researchgate.net/publication/23…

Cool Danish study by Louise Tidmund finds meaningfulness is opposite of boredom. Schoolkids who find studies meaningless say schoolwork is boring (more than others). Hmm, nature vs. culture? dpf.dk/produkt/bog/li…

Cool insight from gullibility conference: belief in conspiracy theories isn’t necessarily gullibility. Rather, it is how simple minds try to avoid being gullible.

Good for empathy training, or just fun read: Two fine novels about curmudgeons, one from each sex. A Man Called Ove (funnier). Olive Kitteredge (richer).

I see Twitter offers ‘Who to Follow’ rather than ‘Whom to Follow’. I hate Twitter already.

Vohs finds significant ego depletion effect across 30+ labs in large, well-run study. Good news for those who love social psychology! #SPSP2018 #egodepletion Brandon Schmeichel

For bigger ego depletion effects, use longer stronger manipulations. Sjastad and I (JESP 2018) found d=.55 after 24-minute depleting task. #egodepletion

March 2018 special issue of Review Genl Psych on meaning of meaning. Papers on health, terrorism, metaphors, nostalgia, symbols causing meaning, hypocognition, and more.