Members

Heather Barry

Research Interests:

• The motivational, emotional, and cognitive consequences of fantasies about the future: How do fantasies affect achievement, the way people feel, and the way they process information
• Where fantasies come from: Do needs and incentives influence whether people experience their fantasies as positive or negative?
  

E-Mail: heather.barry@nyu.edu

Ana Gantman

Research Interests:

• Conscious/nonconscious goal switching
• Feelings of agency and unconscious goal pursuit
• The explanatory vacuum in nonconsious goal-directed action

E-Mail:  agantman@nyu.edu

Sylviane Houssais

Research Interests:

• Self-regulation in close relationships
• Similarities & differences between commitment and attachment
  

E-Mail: sylviane@nyu.edu

Janet Lee


Research Interests:

• The projection of explicit and and implicit goals
• The social consequences of projecting goals (either cooperative or competitive)

Sam Maglio


Research Interests:

• Emotion in goal pursuit: How do emotional experiences color the goals people set and the strategies they devise to attain them?
• Decision implementation: Do different strategies of making decisions lead to differences in how people act on them?

E-Mail: sam.maglio@nyu.edu

Alex Wesnousky


Research Interests:

• Motivation and identity, especially in the context of maladaptive or negative identity labels.
• How do disease labels and diagnoses influence regulatory thought and behavior, and how can they have both negative and positive consequences.

E-Mail: aew323@nyu.edu

 

Marion Wittchen

Research Interests:

• Motivation in distributed and time-displaced cooperation
• Explicit and implicit commitment in work groups
• Effects of motivated information processing on trust and effort

E-Mail: marion.wittchen@nyu.edu

 

Guests

Andreas Kappes

Research Interests:

• How do self-regulatory strategies of goal setting affect the underlying mental representations of goal commitment and goal striving?
• How do mental representations instigate, energize, maintain, and facilitate goal commitment and goal striving?

Torsten Martiny-Huenger


Research Interests:

• Effects of selective attention on object evaluations
• Dual-process models and self-regulation

 

Timur Sevincer


Research Interests:

• How can people energize themselves to attain their goals?
• What kind of self-regulatory strategies do people employ in their daily life to regulate their goal pursuits?
• How does peoples cultural background influence which goals they pursue and how they pursue them?
• Does alcohol lead people to commit to goals without considering their expectations of attaining them?