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Laura A. King

Laura A. King, Ph.D., is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri.

By Joshua A. Hicks, Laura A. King | November 2, 2021

Struggling to find a sense of meaning in life? Researchers have identified three different pathways to it.

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