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Publications

Roberson, J., Spielmann, S. S., Kopetz, C. (accepted). When More Means Less: The Impact of Instrumentality Dilution on Evaluations of Romantic Relationships. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.

Kopetz, C., Woerner, J. I., MacPherson, L., & Lejuez, C. W., Nelson, C. A., Zeanah, C. H., & Fox, N. (2018). Early psychosocial deprivation and adolescent risk-taking: The role of motivation and executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; 10.1037/xge0000486.

Kopetz, C., Woerner, J. I., Starnes, W., & Dedvukaj, J. (2018). It’s risky, therefore I do it: Counterfinality as a source of perceived instrumentality of risk behavior as means to goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.001.

Kopetz, C., Woerner, J. I., Briskin, J. L. (2018). Another look at impulsivity: Could impulsive behavior represent strategic goal pursuit? Social and Personality Psychology Compass; e12385. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12385

Briskin, J. L., Kopetz, C., Fitzsimons, G. M., & Slatcher, R. B. (2017). For better or for worse: Outsourcing self-regulation and goal pursuit. Social and Personality Psychological Science. New York, NY: Routledge. doi:10.1177/1948550617736112

Johnson, M., & Kopetz, C. (2017). The unintended effects of providing risk information about drinking and driving. Health Psychology, 36(9), 872-880.

Kopetz, C. (2017). Risk and self-Defeating Behaviors As Goal Pursuit Rather Than Regulatory Failure. In Kopetz, C. and Fishbach, A. (Eds.).  The motivation-cognition interface; From the lab to the real world. A Festschrift in honor of Arie W. Kruglanski (pp. 106-130) New York, NY: Routledge.

Kopetz, C. & Fishbach, A. (2017). The motivation-cognition interface; From the lab to the real world. A Festschrift in honor of Arie W. Kruglanski. New York, NY: Routledge.

Kopetz, C., MacPherson, L., Mitchell, A. D., Huston-Ludlam, A., Wiers, R. W. H. J. (2017). A novel alternative behavior approach bias modification intervention for smoking cessation: The relevance of implicit mechanisms. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacoloy, 25, 50-60.

Schumpe, B. M., Brizi, A., Giacomantonio, M., Panno, A., Kopetz, C., Kosta, M., & Mannetti, L. (2017). Need for cognitive closure reduces risk taking and motivates discounting of delayed rewards.  Personality and Individual Differences, 107, 66-71.

Woerner, J. I., Kopetz, C., Lechner, W., & Lejuez, C. W. (2016). History of abuse and risky sexual behavior among substance users: The role of rejection sensitivity and the need to belong. Addictive Behaviors, 62, 73-78.

Kopetz, C. (2016). Motivation and self-regulation mechanisms in addiction. In C. Kopetz & C. W. Lejuez (Eds.) Addictions: A Social Psychological Perspective (pp. 47-75). New York, NY: Routledge.

Kopetz, C. & Lejuez, C.W. (Eds.) (2016)  Addictions: A Social Psychological Perspective (Frontiers of Social Psychology).  New York, NY: Routledge.

Kopetz, C., Collado, A. C., & Lejuez, C.W. (2015)   When the end justifies the means; Automatic tendencies toward sex-trade for crack cocaine.  Motivation Science, 1 (4), 233-243.

Kopetz, C. & Orehek, A., E. (2015). When the end justifies the means; Self-defeating behavior as “rational” and “successful” self-regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(5), 386-398.

Kruglanski, A. W. Chernikova, M., Kopetz, C. (2015). Emerging trends in motivation science: The “What“ and the “How“ of willing and striving. In Scott, R. & Kosslyn, S. (Eds.). Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Kruglanski, A. W. Chernikova, M., Rosensweig, E., Kopetz, C. (2014). On motivational readiness. Psychological Review, 121, 367-388.

Kopetz, C., Hofmann, W., & Wiers, R. W. (2014). On the selection and balancing of multiple selfish goals. Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 147-148.

Kopetz, C., Pickover, A., Magidson, J., Richards, R., Iwamoto, D., & Lejuez, C. (2014). Gender and social rejection as risk factors for engagement in risky sexual behavior among crack cocaine users. Prevention Science, 15(3), 376-384.

Kopetz, C., Lejuez, C. W, Wiers, R., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2013). Motivation and self-regulation in addiction. Perspectives in Psychological Sciences, 8(1), 3-24. 

Kruglanski, A. W., Kopetz, C., Belanger, J., Chun, W. Y., Orehek, E., & Fishbach, A. (2013). Features of Multifinality: Effects of Goal Plurality on Means Preferences.Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17(1), 22-39

Kopetz, C., Kruglanski, A. W., Arens, Z., Etkin, J. & Macrea-Jonhson, H. (2012) A goal-systemic approach to consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 22, 208-223.

Kruglanski, A.W., Belanger, J., Chen, X., Kopetz, C., Pierro, A., & Mannetti, L. (2012). The Energetics of Motivated Cognition: A Force Field Analysis. Psychological Review, 119(1), 1-20.

Kopetz, C., Faber, T., Fishbach, A., & Kruglanski, A. (2011). Multifinality Constraints Effect: How Goal Multiplicity Narrows the Means Set to a Focal End. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(5), 810-826.

Buckner, J. D., Proctor, S., Reynolds, E. K., Kopetz, C. & Lejuez, C.W. (2011). Cocaine Dependence and Anxiety Sensitivity among Patients Presenting for Residential Drug Use Treatment. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 25(1), 22-30.

Kopetz, C., Reynolds, E. K, Hart, C. L, Kruglanski, A. W., & Lejuez, C. W. (2010). Social context and perceived effects of drugs on sexual behavior among individuals who use both heroin and cocaine. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 18(3), 214-220.

Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2010). Confronting the self-control challenge: Unpacking the dilemma and its modes of resolution. In R. Hassin, K. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.) Self-control (pp 297-311). Oxford University Press.

Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2009). What is so special (and non-special) about goals? A view from the cognitive perspective. In G. B. Moskowitz and H. Grant (Eds.)Goals (pp. 27-55). New York: Guilford Press.

Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2009). The role of goal-systems in self-regulation. E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.) The psychology of action (Vol 2): The mechanisms of human action (pp.350-367). Oxford University Press.

Kopetz, C. & Kruglanski, A. W. (2008). Effects of accessibility and instantiation on the use of piecemeal and category information in impression formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(5), 692-705.

Kopetz, C., Kruglanski, A. W. Chen, X., & Orehek, E. (2008). Goal systemic effects in the context of choice and social judgment. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(6), 2071-2089.

Desrichard, O. & Kopetz, C. (2005). A threat in the elder: The impact of task instructions and self-efficacy on memory performance in the elderly. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35(4), 537-552.