Jane Ebert

Professor Ebert’s research examines ways people are influenced by time in their decision-making and behavior. In one line of research, she examines people’s pursuit of and focus on future rewards and goals. This includes, more recently, identifying conditions that help people change behavior to achieve future goals (such as forming new healthy habits). In a second line of research, on hedonic prediction, she examines when and why people mispredict their feelings, and so may be mistaken about future desires or goals. Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.