Vol 4.1, Spring 2020

TARGET ARTICLE

Meaning and Evolution: Why Nature Selected Human Minds to Use Meaning

Roy F. Baumeister, William von Hippel

RESPONSES TO TARGET ARTICLE

The Evolutionary Function of What People Find Meaningful

Brock Bastian, Brodie Dakin, Sean Murphy

The Darker Side

Michael C. Corballis

Commentary on “Meaning and Evolution”

Eric Klinger

Meaning at the Crossroads of Evolution, Culture, and Person

Dmitry Leontiev

Apes in Tuxedos: Robust Sense of Meaning Built upon Our Evolutionarily Developed Basic Psychological Needs

Frank Martela

I Understand the Meaning of Life—But What is the Meaning of “Meaning”?

Dan P. McAdams

Is Existential Meaning a Need or a Want?

Crystal L. Park, Login S. George

The Detection of Connections, the Experience of Meaning, and Adaptation

Hope Rose, Laura A. King

What Does “Meaning” Mean? A Commentary on Baumeister and von Hippel

Robert J. Sternberg

Is Meaning Nonphysical?

Paul Thagard

Situated and Historized Making Sense of Meaning: Implications for Radicalization

Kees van den Bos, Beatrice A. de Graaf

Meaning and Evil and a Two-Factor Model of Search for Meaning

Paul T. P. Wong

REJOINDER

A Meaningful Discussion of Evolution and Meaning: Reply to Commentaries

Roy F. Baumeister, William von Hippel

Review Essays

Thinking avant la lettre: A Review of 4E Cognition

James Carney

A Scientific Turn in the Genre of How-to Fiction Writing Manuals?

Stefan Veleski

Human Behavior Writ Large

Bernard Wood

Book Reviews

Pascal Boyer. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Reviewed by Connor Wood

William G. Domhoff. The Emergence of Dreaming: Mind-Wandering, Embodied Simulation, and the Default Network

Reviewed by Andrey Vyshedskiy

Bradley Irish. Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling

Reviewed by Neema Parvini

Winfried Menninghaus. Aesthetics After Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts

Reviewed by Henrik Høgh-Olesen

James C. Kaufman and Robert J. Sternberg, eds. James C. Kaufman and Robert J. Sternberg, eds.

Reviewed by Aaron Kozbelt

Michael Tomasello. Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny

Reviewed by David F. Bjorklund

Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett Cooke, eds. Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett Cooke, eds.

Reviewed by Catherine Salmon

Robert N. Watson. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

Reviewed by Timothy M. Waring and Antonio Jurlina

Glenn Weisfeld. Evolved Emotions: An Interdisciplinary and Functional Analysis

Reviewed by Alan J. Fridlund

David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, eds. Evolution and Contextual Behavioural Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding

Reviewed by Ken Aitken

Tania Zittoun and Vlad Petre Glăveanu, eds. Handbook of Imagination and Culture

Reviewed by Eric Klinger