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Wang, J., & O'Brien, E. (revise and resubmit at Journal of Consumer Research). Perceiving permanence in an evolving marketplace. [email for copy]
Zaw, S., Kirgios, E., & O'Brien, E. (revise and resubmit at Organization Science). Evaluators devalue overcoming adversity when stakes increase. [email for copy]
O'Brien, E. (2026). One's actions "aging poorly": An integrative egocentric framework for understanding impression management errors and the challenge of temporal impression management. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 30(2), 216-246. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2024). A flexible threshold theory of change perception in self, others, and the world. Psychological Review, 131(6), 1435-1458. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2022). Losing sight of piecemeal progress: People lump and dismiss improvement efforts that fall short of categorical change—despite improving. Psychological Science, 33(8), 1278-1299. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2020). When small signs of change add up: The psychology of tipping points. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(1), 55-62. [link]
Klein, N., & O'Brien, E. (2017). The power and limits of personal change: When a bad past does (and does not) inspire in the present. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(2), 210-229. [link]
O'Brien, E., & Klein, N. (2017). The tipping point of perceived change: Asymmetric thresholds in diagnosing improvement versus decline. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(2), 161-185. [link]
O'Brien, E., & Kardas, M. (2016). The implicit meaning of (my) change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(6), 882-894. [link]
Klein, N., & O'Brien, E. (2016). The tipping point of moral change: When do good and bad acts make good and bad actors? Social Cognition, 34(2), 149-166. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2015). Mapping out past versus future minds: The perceived trajectory of rationality versus emotionality over time. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 624-628. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2013). Easy to retrieve but hard to believe: Metacognitive discounting of the unpleasantly possible. Psychological Science, 24(6), 844-851. [link]