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In this interview, I dive into some of my research on purpose in college students and provide recommendations on how individuals can investigate and discover what makes them feel purposeful.

As part of a broader writeup on how Zoom is transforming our lives, I spoke with a journalist at the Economist about my work on the potential implications of Zoom and its features for individuals' body image. 

This Psy Post dives into my paper on the reciprocal relationship between well-being and cognitive decline; we find that sense of purpose and eudaimonic well-being are more strongly tied to cognition than life satisfaction. 

In this  Character blog post for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, I review our findings on how having versus wanting money can have distinct and contrary implications for different well-being domains.

Included in a larger discussion on the importance of social relatinships, I spoke with a journalist from the New York Times on the role positive and negative social intercations may play in influencing daily sense of purpose. 

In this podcast, I talk with a fellow personality psychologist about the current state of the purpose literature, describing what we know about purpose measurement, development, and interventions.