Fall 2026 Announcements

Yes, Antonio Freitas is hoping to recruit a new PhD student for the coming year (to begin in Fall, 2027), pending budgetary considerations here at the University. To have a sense of the work being down now in the lab, please see the below examples of recent lab publications:

Freitas, A. L. (in press). Health Behavior Intentions Predict Change in Perceived Capacity, Not Controllability: A Motivational Account of Perceived Behavioral Control. Journal of Health Psychology. download (.pdf)

Wang, A., Wong, E., & Freitas, A. L. (2026). When health research feels relevant: A data report on perceived research applicability and health behavior intentions. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1803355. full text link

Freitas, A.L., Wang, A., Wang, R., & Johnson, E. (2026). Does Potential to Change Positively and Negatively Valenced Health Behaviors Influence their Self-Concept Relevance? A Registered Report. full text link

Congratulations, Carl Wiedemann (lab alum), for beginning your position as Product Services & Management Analyst at Northwell Health.

Special Issue Call for Submissions: "Descriptive Research in Psychological Science" co-edited by Antonio Freitas at Psychological Science.

Highlighted Recent Announcements

Congratulations, Allison Sweeney (lab alum), for earning tenure at the University of South Carolina.

Congratulations, Carl Wiedemann, for completing an *arduous* data collection for a registered report on the cognitive control of memory, with in-principle acceptance at Nature Human Behavior.

Congratulations, Amy Wang on achieving Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundatation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Congratulations, Ashley Araiza, for accepting a position as Assistant Professor in Psychology at Angelo State University