Selected Bibliography for Ed O'Brien

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

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Published Works

"What Makes People Happy? Decoupling the Experiential‐Material Continuum." Evan Weingarten, Kristen Duke, Wendy Liu, Rebecca W. Hamilton, On Amir, Gil Appel, Moran Cerf, Joseph K. Goodman, Andrea C. Morales, Ed O'Brien, Jordi Quoidbach and Monic Sun; Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2022.

"Repeated Exposure to Success Harshens Reactions to Failure." Kristina A. Wald and Ed O'Brien; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2022, 103, pp. 104381.

"Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving." Ed O'Brien; Psychological Science, 2022, 33(8), pp. 1278-99.

Ending on a Familiar Note: Perceived Endings Motivate Repeat Consumption Yuji K. Winet and Ed O'Brien; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; US: American Psychological Association, 2022.

"Keep Talking: (Mis)Understanding the Hedonic Trajectory of Conversation." Michael Kardas, Juliana Schroeder and Ed O'Brien; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2022, 123, pp. 717-40.

"The “Next” Effect: When a Better Future Worsens the Present." Ed O'Brien; Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2021, 13(2), pp. 456-65.

"When Small Signs of Change Add Up: The Psychology of Tipping Points." Ed O'Brien; Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2019, 29(1), pp. 55-62.

"Enjoy It Again: Repeat Experiences Are Less Repetitive Than People Think." Ed O'Brien; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2019, 116, pp. 519-40.

"People Are Slow to Adapt to the Warm Glow of Giving." Ed O'Brien and Samantha Kassirer; Psychological Science, 2018, 30(2), pp. 193-204.

"Unconventional Consumption Methods and Enjoying Things Consumed: Recapturing the “First-Time” Experience." Ed O'Brien and Robert W. Smith; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2018, 45(1), pp. 67-80.

"People Use Less Information Than They Think to Make up Their Minds." Nadav Klein and Ed O'Brien; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115(52), pp. 13222-27.

"(Mis)Imagining the Good Life and the Bad Life: Envy and Pity as a Function of the Focusing Illusion." Ed O'Brien, Alexander C. Kristal, Phoebe C. Ellsworth and Norbert Schwarz; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018, 75, pp. 41-53.

"The Power and Limits of Personal Change: When a Bad Past Does (and Does Not) Inspire in the Present." Nadav Klein and Ed O'Brien; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017, 113, pp. 210-29.

"Worth the Wait? Leisure Can Be Just as Enjoyable with Work Left Undone." Ed O'Brien and Ellen Roney; Psychological Science, 2017, 28(7), pp. 1000-15.

"The Tipping Point of Perceived Change: Asymmetric Thresholds in Diagnosing Improvement Versus Decline." Ed O'Brien and Nadav Klein; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017, 112, pp. 161-85.

"Happy You, Healthy Me? Having a Happy Partner Is Independently Associated with Better Health in Oneself." William J. Chopik and Ed O'Brien; Health Psychology, 2017, 36, pp. 21-30.

"Differences in Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking across 63 Countries." William J. Chopik, Ed O'Brien and Sara H. Konrath; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2016, 48(1), pp. 23-38.

"The Implicit Meaning of (My) Change." Ed O'Brien and Michael Kardas; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2016, 111, pp. 882-94.

"Mlk Day and Racial Attitudes: Liking the Group More but Its Members Less." William J. Chopik, Ed O'Brien, Sara H. Konrath and Norbert Schwarz; Political Psychology, 2015, 36(5), pp. 559-67.

"Too Much Experience: A Desensitization Bias in Emotional Perspective Taking." Troy Campbell, Ed O'Brien, Leaf Van Boven, Norbert Schwarz and Peter Ubel; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014, 106(2), pp. 272-85.

Looking Forward: Time, Change, and the Persistently Positive Future.; Edward Hughes O'Brien; Ph.D Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2014.

"Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking: Linear and Quadratic Effects of Age across the Adult Life Span." Ed O'Brien, Sara H. Konrath, Daniel Grühn and Anna Linda Hagen; The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2013, 68(2), pp. 168-75.

"Easy to Retrieve but Hard to Believe: Metacognitive Discounting of the Unpleasantly Possible." Ed O'Brien; Psychological Science, 2013, 24(6), pp. 844-51.

"The Thrill of (Absolute) Victory: Success among Many Enhances Emotional Payoffs." Ed O'Brien and Linda Hagen; Emotion, 2013, 13(3), pp. 366-74.

"Aggression," Brad J. Bushman and Ed H. O'Brien, in Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Second Edition). V. S. Ramachandran, San Diego: Academic Press, 2012, pp. 37-43.

"More Than Skin Deep: Visceral States Are Not Projected onto Dissimilar Others." Ed O'Brien and Phoebe C. Ellsworth; Psychological Science, 2012, 23(4), pp. 391-96.

"Saving the Last for Best: A Positivity Bias for End Experiences." Ed O'Brien and Phoebe C. Ellsworth; Psychological Science, 2012, 23(2), pp. 163-65.

"Time Crawls When You’re Not Having Fun: Feeling Entitled Makes Dull Tasks Drag On." Ed O'Brien, Phyllis A. Anastasio and Brad J. Bushman; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011, 37(10), pp. 1287-96.

"Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students over Time: A Meta-Analysis." Sara H. Konrath, Edward H. O'Brien and Courtney Hsing; Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2011, 15(2), pp. 180-98.

"Individual Differences in the Preferred Neck-Resting Position of Caribbean Flamingos (Phoenicopterus Ruber)." Matthew J. Anderson, Sarah A. Williams and Edward H. O'Brien; Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 2009, 14(1), pp. 66-78.