Paul Fuglestad

Research Interests  

Behavior change and relationship processes that impact people’s physical and psychological well-being.

 Areas of Expertise 

• Social & Personality Psychology
• Health Behavior Change
• Self-Regulation
• Self-Monitoring
• Relationship Processes

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS READ MORE

• Effect of regulatory focus on performance in smoking and weight loss interventions. Health Psy
• Status and the motivational underpinnings of self-monitoring. Social & Personality Psy Compass
• Lifestyle patterns associated with diet, physical activity, body mass index & recent weight loss in a sample of successful weight losers. Intl J of Beh Nutrition & Physical Activity

Short Biography 

Broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of social, personality, and health psychology. My current lines of inquiry focus on behavior change and relationship processes that impact people’s physical and psychological well-being. Listed below are research questions that I am currently investigating:

    What processes govern the initiation and maintenance of health behavior change? How do individual differences in self-regulation and other aspects of personality relate to health behavior change? How can maintenance be improved?

    How do relationship processes affect well-being and health behaviors? Does it matter if relationship partners agree or disagree regarding important attitudes and values? How do power and influence dynamics relate to well-being?

Education 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Obesity Prevention Training Program, University of Minnesota

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Minnesota

B.A., Psychology, Calvin College