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Overview

Ayelet Fishbach is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with specific contributions across subfields including social psychology, applied psychology, general decision sciences, experimental and cognitive psychology, and statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The research topics addressed by Fishbach encompass behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, social and intergroup psychology, and environmental education and sustainability.

Frequent coauthors of Fishbach include Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Annabelle Roberts, Kaitlin Woolley, Franklin Shaddy, and Jiabi Wang. Collaborations with these researchers highlight interdisciplinary efforts spanning social and behavioral sciences.

Fishbach's scholarly output appears prominently in several publication venues, reflecting a focus on social and organizational psychology. These venues include the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Motivation Science, and the Academy of Management Proceedings.

Among recent publications by Fishbach are:

  • The Structure of Intrinsic Motivation, 2021, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Other recent papers cited alongside Fishbach's work, indicating broader contextual relevance, include:

  • Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science, 2021, Nature
  • You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The Present and Future of Peer Review: Ideas, Interventions, and Evidence, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trade-Offs in Choice, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology

Best Publications

  • A theory of goal systems.

    Arie W. Kruglanski;James Y. Shah;Ayelet Fishbach;Ron Friedman

  • Leading us not unto temptation: momentary allurements elicit overriding goal activation.

    Ayelet Fishbach;Ronald S. Friedman;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Goals as Excuses or Guides: The Liberating Effect of Perceived Goal Progress on Choice

    Ayelet Fishbach;Ravi Dhar

  • Dynamics of Self-Regulation: How (Un)Accomplished Goal Actions Affect Motivation

    Minjung Koo;Ayelet Fishbach

  • Counteractive self-control in overcoming temptation.

    Yaacov Trope;Ayelet Fishbach

  • The pitfall of experimenting on the web: How unattended selective attrition leads to surprising (yet false) research conclusions.

    Haotian Zhou;Ayelet Fishbach

  • Self-Control in Action: Implicit Dispositions Toward Goals and Away From Temptations

    Ayelet Fishbach;James Y. Shah

  • Subgoals as substitutes or complements: the role of goal accessibility.

    Ayelet Fishbach;Ravi Dhar;Ying Zhang

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • How Positive and Negative Feedback Motivate Goal Pursuit

    Ayelet Fishbach;Tal Eyal;Stacey R. Finkelstein

  • The goal construct in social psychology.

    Ayelet Fishbach;Melissa J. Ferguson

  • Be Better Or Be Merry: How Mood Affects Self-Control

    Ayelet Fishbach;Aparna A. Labroo

  • Attentional Priming Effects on Creativity

    Ronald S. Friedman;Ayelet Fishbach;Jens Förster;Lioba Werth

  • Self-Control A Function of Knowing When and How to Exercise Restraint

    Kristian Ove R. Myrseth;Ayelet Fishbach

  • How to Measure Motivation: A Guide for the Experimental Social Psychologist

    Maferima Touré-Tillery;Ayelet Fishbach

  • When Healthy Food Makes You Hungry

    Stacey R. Finkelstein;Ayelet Fishbach

  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

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  • The dilution model: how additional goals undermine the perceived instrumentality of a shared path.

    Ying Zhang;Ayelet Fishbach;Arie W. Kruglanski

  • Emotional transfer in goal systems

    Ayelet Fishbach;James Y Shah;Arie W Kruglanski

  • The Structure of Intrinsic Motivation

    Ayelet Fishbach;Kaitlin Woolley

  • The dynamics of self-regulation

    Ayelet Fishbach;Ying Zhang;Minjung Koo

  • The substitutability of external control and self-control

    Ayelet Fishbach;Yaacov Trope

Frequent Co-Authors

Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Christopher K. Hsee
Christopher K. Hsee University of Chicago
Jocelyn J. Bélanger
Jocelyn J. Bélanger New York University
Melissa J. Ferguson
Melissa J. Ferguson Yale University
Antonio Pierro
Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome
Edward R. Hirt
Edward R. Hirt Indiana University
Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University

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