Meet the Team

Dr. Milyavskaya is an associate professor of Psychology at Carleton University. She received her PhD from McGill University and completed a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto before joining the faculty at Carleton University. Marina is fascinated by how people set and pursue goals in a multitude of domains throughout their daily lives. Her multi-method approach to studying self-regulation includes experimental, prospective, and experience-sampling studies, as well as a focus on idiosyncratic personal goals. She especially enjoys finding (and using) novel methodological and statistical ways to empirically examine questions related to goal pursuit, self-regulation, and well-being. View Marina’s CV

Isabelle Leduc-Cummings is a PhD student in Counselling Psychology at McGill University. Her primary research focuses on motivation and the experience of obstacles during goal pursuit. View Isabelle’s full profile

Anamarie Gennara is a M.A. student in Psychology with a specialization in Data Science. She is currently completing a Mitacs research project with UpBeing Inc. and Dr. Milyavskaya focusing on the measurement and prediction of personal productivity.

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Current: Methodologist at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Gail McMillan completed a postdoctoral position studying self-regulation, goal pursuit, and health.

Current: Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto

Kaitlyn M. Werner completed her PhD in Social, Personality, and Health Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Marina Milyavskaya. Broadly speaking, her research examines the antecedents and underlying mechanisms that facilitate successful goal pursuit. Continuing into her postdoctoral work, Kaitlyn also examines the motivational mechanisms of self-control, specifically focusing on how “want-to” and “have-to” motivation influence goal-related decisions in-the-moment (e.g., amount of conflict experienced, what strategies people use, etc.) View Kaitlyn’s full profile