KAITLYN M. WERNER, PHD

NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Oregon

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Education and Experience

NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2023-
University of Oregon, USA
Visiting Scholar, Approach-Avoidance Motivation Research Group, 2024
University of Rochester, USA
Visiting Scholar, Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory, 2022-
Stanford University, USA
Visiting Scholar, Social Psychology Research Group, 2023
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Provost's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021-2023
University of Pennsylvania, USA
SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2019-2022
University of Toronto, Canada
PhD in Social, Personality, and Health Psychology, 2015-2019
Carleton University, Canada
Visiting Scholar, Social Cognition Center Cologne, 2018
University of Cologne, Germany
MSc in Social Psychology, 2013-2015
University of Victoria, Canada
BA (with distinction and honours) in Psychology, 2009-2013
University of Rochester, USA

Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD is an NIH Diversity Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (Mentor: Dr. Elliot Berkman) at the University of Oregon. She is also a research affiliate collaborating with the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory (Mentor: Dr. James Gross) at Stanford University and the Social Psychology Research Group (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann) at Ruhr University Bochum. Previously, Dr. Werner was a Provost's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow and UTSC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Affective Science and Health Laboratory (Mentor: Dr. Brett Ford) at the University of Toronto, and completed her doctoral studies in Social, Personality, and Health Psychology in the Goal Pursuit and Self-Regulation Lab (Mentor: Dr. Marina Milyavskaya) at Carleton University.

Dr. Werner's research takes a multi-method and interdisciplinary approach to understand the factors that facilitate successful self-regulation, goal pursuit, and well-being. She also has a strong interest in measurement (e.g., construct and ecological validity), advanced quantitative methods (e.g., multilevel SEM, Bayesian statistics), research design (e.g., experimental, longitudinal, EMA), and meta-science (e.g., transparent and reproducible research practices).

About Me

Recent News

Our symposium, Emotional Mechanisms of Behaviour Change: Implications for Theory and Practice, was accepted to be presented at the Annual Convention for the Association of Psychological Science in San Francisco! This symposium was co-organized by Michelle (Lani) Shiota and Kaitlyn Werner, and features work by ourselves alongside our amazing colleagues, Stephanie Marita Carpenter and Jennifer Lerner.
Our team was awarded the Committee for Inclusive Community Research Award from the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon! Led by Kaitlyn Werner, alongside a team of fabulous mentees, Denicia Aragon, Sylas Wilson, and Ava Arom, we will examine the associations between socioeconomic status, emotion regulation strategies, and health behaviour.

Kaitlyn Werner was accepted into the Navigating Educational Trajectories (NET Neuro) fellowship program at the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon!

Kaitlyn Werner was awarded an Unrestricted Travel Grant from Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology!
Kaitlyn Werner was awarded an NIH Diversity Supplement Grant from the National Cancer Institute! In collaboration with Elliot Berkman, this grant supports our project, Regulatory flexibility and smoking behavior: Examining within-strategy variation in effectiveness as a function of craving intensity.
Kaitlyn Werner received the Research Exchange Grant for Young Motivation Scientists from the Society for the Study of Motivation! This grant provides support for me to be a visiting scholar with Dr. Andrew J. Elliot at the University of Rochester during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Our theoretical paper, Self-control: An integrative framework (co-authored by Kaitlyn Werner and Brett Ford) has been officially published open access at Social and Personality Psychology Compass!
Our new empirical paper, Strategy repertoire and goal attainment, is now available as a pre-print! This work was co-authored by Kaitlyn Werner, Raymond Wu (former thesis student), James Gross, and Malte Friese.

Upcoming and Recent Presentations

August 2024: Invited symposium at the European Conference on Personality, Berlin, Germany. Topic: Regulatory flexibility and behaviour change: A process model framework.
May 2024: Research presentation in the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Topic: TBD
May 2024: Research presentation at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. Topic: Integrating self-regulation and affect science perspectives to promote health behaviour change: A process model framework (with Elliot T. Berkman & James J. Gross).

April 2024: Research presentation at the Committee for Inclusive Community Blitz and Bonanza, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. Topic: Socioeconomic status and emotion regulation.
April 2024: Invited keynote address at the First Annual Psychology Early Career Conference, Durham University, Durham, UK.

March 2024: Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Brighton, UK. Topic: A polyregulation approach to health behaviour change (with James J. Gross).
March 2024: Flash talk at the Annual Conference for the Society for Affective Science (SAS), New Orleans, LA. Topic: Emotion regulation flexibility: A process model framework (with Kate Petrova & James J. Gross).
March 2024: Poster at the SAS Emotion Regulation Pre-Conference, New Orleans, LA. Topic: Unpacking the complexity of emotion polyregulation (with Kate Petrova, Andero Uusberg, Helen Uusberg, & James J. Gross).

Interested in having me speak to your group or organization on the science of self-control, motivation, or emotion regulation? Let's chat!
Email me at kmwerner [@] uoregon.edu