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ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2026

Meaning and Attention Intertwined: Experimental and Experience-Sampling Findings.

Katy Y Y Tam, Wijnand A P van Tilburg, Christian S Chan, Michael Inzlicht

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Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Katy Y Y TamUniversity of Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2197-8705
Wijnand A P van TilburgUniversity of Essex, Colchester, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9724-0603
Christian S ChanInternational Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2616-5199
Michael InzlichtUniversity of Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9297-6497

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How does one attain meaning? Though pivotal to well-being, this question has been explored mainly within symbolic and philosophical domains, with little focus on its cognitive processes. We present a theoretical integration of meaning and attention, followed by five studies investigating their relationship in lab experiments and everyday life (total

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AttentionAdultBoredomEmotionsFemaleHumansMalePsychological Well-BeingYoung Adultattentionboredommeaningnegative emotionssubjective well-being

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PMID41217207
PMCPMC13646424

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