Roy F. Baumeister, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Florida State University and at the University of Queensland in Australia. Dr. Baumeister has written more than 600 professional publications and numerous books for professionals and the general public. His research on self-regulation addresses such topics as aggression, eating, sexuality, emotion, limited resources, addiction, free will, physiology, and task performance.
Roy Baumeister writes conceptually exact, richly factual, and
continuously delightful books on deep subjects, and this is his
best. --Roger Brown, Ph.D.
The topic is, of course, tremendous. We feel giddily nervous on
even entertaining it, and so usually take it for granted or leave
it to Monty Python. Fortunately, this volume has now arrived,
bringing with it a far-reaching analysis of how life's meaning
impinges on social life. It is rare to find such a broad array of
intriguing and subtle hypotheses derived from a single theme, and
even more rare to find such wide-ranging awareness of history and
culture in contemporary social psychology. --Daniel M. Wegner,
Ph.D.
The book encourages the reader to struggle with hard questions that
have no objective answers. --Jerry Bruce, Sam Houston State,
Huntsville, Texas
- A scholarly and intriguing review of research and thought on
finding meaningfulness in life. Laypeople and psychologists alike
will find it a fascinating read. --Contemporary Psychology,
9/27/1992
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