People have an awful lot on their plate these days. Between trying to stay (or get) healthy, make a living, pay off debt, save for retirement, maintain fulfilling marriages and relationships, raise happy kids, and stay off the unemployment list, people have a lot of demands for their time. For most of us, at least at sometime or another, these demands are exactly that, demanding! My research is all about how people manage these multiple goals, when goal pursuit is easy, when goal pursuit is difficult, and how we can make it better. Much of my research focuses on the specific situation of self-control, when pursuing our goals is difficult. The primary purpose of most everything I study is to try to improve what we know about self-control so that we can help people be more successful at it (and hopefully a bit happier, too). Lab site: Visit the Motivation and Behavior lab site
