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Areas of interest

Broadly speaking, the research in my lab explores interactions between self-regulation, emotion, and visual attention.

We study questions such as:

• What does attract people’s attention? Do people see what they want to see (or fear)?
• How do people know about and identify objects and people that are instrumental in reaching their goals? How can they learn better strategies to achieve their goals and regulate emotions?
• How do people identify and solve conflicts between their many goals, motives, and desires? What are precursors and consequences of experiencing, identifying, and solving goal and self-control conflicts?
• What do emotions motivate people to do? Can valued goals help people to cope with negative emotions?

Our research applies these questions to self-control conflicts, healthy and sustainable eating, food labelling, emotion regulation, intergroup conflict, and prosocial and ethical behaviours.