Kaitlyn M. Werner, PhD
Provost's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Recent News
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I was accepted into the Navigating Educational Trajectories (NET Neuro) fellowship program at the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon!
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I was awarded an Unrestricted Travel Grant from Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology!
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I was awarded an NIH Diversity Supplement Grant from the National Cancer Institute! In collaboration with Dr. Elliot Berkman, this grant supports our project, Regulatory flexibility and smoking behavior: Examining within-strategy variation in effectiveness as a function of craving intensity.
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I 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 for a month (TBD) during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Our theoretical paper, Self-control: An integrative framework (with Dr. Brett Ford) has been officially published open access at Social and Personality Psychology Compass! The final editorial print can be found on my publications page.
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Our new empirical paper, Strategy repertoire and goal attainment, is now available as a pre-print! This work was conducted in collaboration with Raymond Wu (my wonderful former honours thesis student) and Dr. Malte Friese.
Upcoming and Recent Presentations
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November 2023: Research presentation in the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Topic: TBD.
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October 2023: Symposium talk at Emotions 2023, Tilburg, Netherlands. Topic: Behaviour change in context: An affect science perspective to promote successful self-control (with Brett Q. Ford, Wilhelm Hofmann, Kate Petrova, Raymond Wu, Malte Friese, & James J. Gross).
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June 2023: Research presentation at the CPA Social and Personality Pre-Conference, Toronto, ON. Topic: The more the better? A polyregulation approach to regulating desires (with Brett Q. Ford & James J. Gross).
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June 2023: Research presentation at the Self-Determination Theory Conference, Orlando, FL. Topic: Harnessing the power of motivation to promote lasting behaviour change (with Brett Q. Ford, Malte Friese, & Wilhelm Hofmann).
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April 2023: Research presentation in the Stanford Psychophysiology Lab in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Topic: Affect science and behavior change: An emerging conceptual framework.
Interested in having me speak to your group or organization on the science of self-control, motivation, and goal pursuit? Let's chat!
Email me at kmwerner [@] uoregon.edu