# overview
I have broad interests in social and personality psychology, particularly the human capacity for self-control. My research examines willpower, choice, memory, motivation, emotion, and emotion regulation.

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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Georgia Southern University - (Statesboro, Georgia, United States)

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln - (Lincoln, United States)

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Florida State University - (Tallahassee, Florida, United States)

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After-effects of self-control: The reward responsivity hypothesis.

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A Cognitive Control Perspective of Self-Control Strength and Its Depletion

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ACETAMINOPHEN DOES NOT REDUCE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CONFLICT, ERROR PROCESSING, AND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

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Imbuing Everyday Actions with Meaning in Response to Existential Threat

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Effects of emotional content on working memory capacity.

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The expression of determination: similarities between anger and approach-related positive affect.

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Getting over it: Working memory capacity and affective responses to stressful events in daily life.

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Beyond Limited Resources Self-Control Failure as the Product of Shifting Priorities

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Intellectual performance and ego depletion: role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing.

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Individual Differences in Executive Functioning and Their Relationship to Emotional Processes and Responses

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Exercising self-control increases relative left frontal cortical activation.

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Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience.

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Noninvasive stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates the inhibition of motivated responding.

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Self-Regulatory Resource Depletion: A Model for Understanding the Limited Nature of Goal Pursuit

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Erratum to Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control [J. Exp. Soc. Psychol. 48 (2012) 943947]

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Cardiac vagal control predicts spontaneous regulation of negative emotional expression and subsequent cognitive performance

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Embodying Power: A Preregistered Replication and Extension of the Power Pose Effect

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Self-affirmation enhances processing of negative stimuli among threat-prone individuals.

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Self-affirmation can enable goal disengagement.

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Intellectual performance and ego depletion: Role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing

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Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: willpower is more than a metaphor.

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Is the Conscious Self a Help, a Hindrance, or an Irrelevance to the Creative Process

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Beyond simple utility in predicting self-control fatigue: a proximate alternative to the opportunity cost model.

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Trait Approach Motivation Relates to Dissonance Reduction

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Differentiating the effects of self-control and self-esteem on reactions to mortality salience

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Look Me in the Eye: Manipulated Eye Gaze Affects Dominance Mindsets

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DOES INCIDENTAL COGNITIVE PROCESSING INFLUENCE SUBSEQUENT EMOTIONAL RESPONDING AND THE LPP?

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The relationship between individual differences in executive functioning and emotion regulation: A comprehensive review

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Thinking about Death Reduces Delay Discounting.

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Attention control, memory updating, and emotion regulation temporarily reduce the capacity for executive control.

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Trait approach motivation moderates the aftereffects of self-control

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Trait approach motivation moderates the aftereffects of self-control.

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Comparing cognitive load and self-regulatory depletion: Effects on emotions and cognitions

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Self-regulation and the extended now: controlling the self alters the subjective experience of time.

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Making memorable choices: Cognitive control and the self-choice effect in memory

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Aftereffects of Self-Control on Positive Emotional Reactivity.

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Evidence that thinking about death relates to time-estimation behavior.

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Behavioural, affective, and physiological effects of negative and positive emotional exaggeration

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Approach motivation and cognitive resources combine to influence memory for positive emotional stimuli.

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Mortality salience increases adherence to salient norms and values.

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Terror management theory and self-esteem revisited: the roles of implicit and explicit self-esteem in mortality salience effects.

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Stimulating Self-Regulation: A Review of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Studies of Goal-Directed Behavior.

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Mortality salience biases attention to positive versus negative images among individuals higher in trait self-control.

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What Is Ego Depletion? Toward a Mechanistic Revision of the Resource Model of Self-Control.

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Heart rate variability and cognitive function: effects of physical effort.

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The effects of mental fatigue on effort allocation: Modeling and estimation.

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Up- and down-regulating facial disgust: affective, vagal, sympathetic, and respiratory consequences.

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Collectors and Collecting: A Social Psychological Perspective

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The Influence of Agreeableness and Ego Depletion on Emotional Responding.

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Effects of prior mental effort on picture processing: An ERP investigation.

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Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying.

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Improving Self-control by Practicing Logical Reasoning

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Disgust sensitivity predicts defensive responding to mortality salience.

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META-ANALYSIS OF FRONTAL EEG ASYMMETRY DURING EMOTIONAL PICTURE AND FILM VIEWING

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Self-Regulation: How and Why People Reach (and Fail to Reach) Their Goals

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A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect.

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A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect.

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The effects of negative emotions on sensory perception: fear but not anger decreases tactile sensitivity.

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GREATER BLOOD PRESSURE REACTIVITY DURING AN EFFORTFUL TASK IS ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE MONITORING

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Self-Control at High and Low Levels of Mental Construal

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Predicting facial valence to negative stimuli from resting RSA: Not a function of active emotion regulation

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Working memory capacity and spontaneous emotion regulation: high capacity predicts self-enhancement in response to negative feedback.

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Resting RSA is associated with natural and self-regulated responses to negative emotional stimuli.

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Higher trait self-control is associated with less intense visceral states

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Correction to: After-effects of self-control: The reward responsivity hypothesis.

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Mortality salience increases personal optimism among individuals higher in trait self-control

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Jealousy increased by induced relative left frontal cortical activity.

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Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: a limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative.

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Ego Depletion Reduces Attention Control: Evidence From Two High-Powered Preregistered Experiments.

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The Social Self, Cognitive, Interpersonal, and Intergroup Perspectives

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Authentic for Thee But Not for Me: Perceived Authenticity in Self-Control Conflicts.

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Why self-control seems (but may not be) limited.

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Electrocortical Effects of Acetaminophen during Emotional Picture Viewing, Cognitive Control, and Negative Feedback.

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Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control (vol 48, pg 943, 2012)

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What makes hope hopeful? The relationship between hope and self-regulation

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Sweet Nothings No Effects of Self-Control Exertion on Blood Glucose Levels

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Self-regulatory depletion and attachment avoidance: Increasing the accessibility of negative attachment-related memories

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Self-affirmation and mortality salience: affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility.

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Self-affirmation and self-control: affirming core values counteracts ego depletion.

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Self-Regulation and the Executive Function: The Self as Controlling Agent

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Stopping anger and anxiety: evidence that inhibitory ability predicts negative emotional responding.

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Rational Versus Experiential Processing of Negative Feedback Reduces Defensiveness but Induces Ego Depletion

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Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control

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Symbolic self-completion in academia: Evidence from department web pages and email signature files

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Self-Regulation and Self-Control, Selected works of Roy F. Baumeister

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Revisiting the Relationship between Individual Differences in Analytic Thinking and Religious Belief: Evidence That Measurement Order Moderates Their Inverse Correlation.

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Trait self-control predicts performance on behavioral tests of self-control.

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Rational Versus Experiential Processing of Negative Feedback Reduces Defensiveness but Induces Ego Depletion

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Self-affirmation breaks the link between the behavioral inhibition system and the threat-potentiated startle response.

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Is Implicit Self-Esteem Really Unconscious?: Implicit Self-Esteem Eludes Conscious Reflection

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Unity and Diversity in Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Investigating How Prior Task Success Improves Memory Performance In Older Adults

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Harmon-Jones, Cindy Kay (2012-10). Does Musical Behavior Promote Affiliation?. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Kelley, Nicholas J (2015-08). Self-Control of Avoidance Motivation: Implications for Understanding Frontal Cortical Asymmetry. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Caskey, Ryan (2010-01). Confronting Ego Threats with Reappraisal versus Rumination. Master's Thesis.

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Crowell, Adrienne L (2016-04). The Effects of Self-Affirmation on Basic Emotional Responses. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Price, Thomas (2012-10). Examining Associations between Emotional Facial Expressions, Relative Left Frontal Cortical Activity, and Task Persistence. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Harmon-Jones, Cindy (2011-02). The Expression of Determination: Similarities Between Anger and Approach-related Positive Affect. Master's Thesis.

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Serra, Raymond Nicholas (2011-02). Approach Motivation and Attentional Breadth: Role of Construal Levels. Master's Thesis.

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Tang, David (2015-04). The Pathway from Sugar to Self-Control. Doctoral Dissertation.