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EXAMPLES
Roberts, A. R., & O'Brien, E. (revise and resubmit at Journal of Consumer Psychology). I should work, you can play: A self-other asymmetry in advised time use. [email for copy]
Hagen, L., & O'Brien, E. (2025). Lost time undermines return behavior. PNAS Nexus, 4(6), pgaf156. [link]
Li, X., Hsee, C. K., & O'Brien, E. (2023). "It could be better" can make it worse: When and why people mistakenly communicate upward counterfactual information. Journal of Marketing Research, 60(2), 219-236. [link]
O'Brien, E. (2022). The "next" effect: When a better future worsens the present. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 456-465. [link]
Kristal, A. C., O'Brien, E., & Caruso, E. M. (2019). Yesterday's news: A temporal discontinuity in the sting of inferiority. Psychological Science, 30(5), 643-656. [link]
O'Brien, E., Kristal, A. C., Ellsworth, P. C., & Schwarz, N. (2018). (Mis)imagining the good life and the bad life: Envy and pity as a function of the focusing illusion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75(1), 41-53. [link]
O'Brien, E., & Roney, E. (2017). Worth the wait? Leisure can be just as enjoyable with work left undone. Psychological Science, 28(7), 1000-1015. [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]
O'Brien, E., Ellsworth, P. C., & Schwarz, N. (2012). Today's misery and yesterday's happiness: Differential effects of current life events on perceptions of past well-being. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(4), 968-972. [link]
O'Brien, E., & Ellsworth, P. C. (2012). Saving the last for best: A positivity bias for end experiences. Psychological Science, 23(2), 163-165. [link]
O'Brien, E., Anastasio, P. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2011). Time crawls when you're not having fun: Feeling entitled makes dull tasks drag on. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(1), 1287-1296. [link]