185. Do You Need Closure?

What’s the best way to carry out random acts of kindness? What’s wrong with making an “Irish exit”? And why is Mike secretly buying lottery tickets?

SOURCES:Roy Baumeister • , social psychologist and visiting scholar at Harvard University. Daniel Gilbert • , professor of psychology at Harvard University. John Gottman • , professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington. Kurt Lewin • , 20th-century German-American psychologist. E. J. Masicampo • , professor of psychology at Wake Forest University. Timothy Wilson • , professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Bluma Zeigarnik • , 20th-century Soviet psychologist.

RESOURCES: • " Life and Work of the Psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik • ," by M. Marco ( Neurosciences and History, • 2018). • " Why We Need Answers • ," by Maria Konnikova ( The New Yorker, • 2013). • " Consider It Done! Plan Making Can Eliminate the Cognitive Effects of Unfulfilled Goals • ," by E. J. Masicampo and Roy Baumeister ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, • 2011). The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples • , by John Gottman (2011). • " 'Let Me Dream On!' Anticipatory Emotions and Preference for Timing in Lotteries • ," by Martin Kocher, Michal Krawczyk, and Frans van Winden ( Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, • 2009). • " Explaining Away: A Model of Affective Adaptation • ," by Timothy Wilson and Daniel Gilbert ( Perspectives on Psychological Science, • 2008). • " On Finished and Unfinished Tasks • ," by Bluma Zeigarnik ( A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology, • 1938).

EXTRAS:Big Five Personality Inventory • , by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " Can We Disagree Better? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2023). • " Would You Be Happier if You Were More Creative? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2023). • " How Can You Be Kinder to Yourself? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2023). • " What’s Wrong With Holding a Grudge? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2022). Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, • by Eileen Spinelli (1991).