{"id":62538,"date":"2020-01-03T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=62538"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:32","slug":"carleton-experts-available-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-experts-available-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: New Year\u2019s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: New Year\u2019s Resolutions\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

As 2020 begins, Carleton experts are available to discuss goal setting, willpower and New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina Milyavskaya<\/strong>
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 7490
\nEmail<\/strong>: Marina.Milyavskaya@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milyavskaya is available to discuss goal setting and New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milyavskaya\u2019s research examines why people are successful in the pursuit of certain goals, but not others. Her work looks at the factors that promote successful goal pursuit and attainment, as well as self-regulatory mechanisms. Her other research interests include autonomy support, health behaviours, attachment and well-being across a person\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milyavskaya is available for English and French interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Davies<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 1109
\nEmail<\/strong>:  Jim.Davies@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies is available to discuss willpower and New Year\u2019s resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, Davies explores computational modelling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual imagination. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds. He is a frequent contributor to Nautilus<\/em> magazine and is author of Riveted: The Science of How Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe<\/em>. He is co-host of the award-winning Minding the Brain<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As 2020 begins, Carleton experts are available to discuss goal setting, willpower and New Year\u2019s resolutions. Marina Milyavskaya Associate Professor, Department of Psychology Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 7490 Email: Marina.Milyavskaya@carleton.ca Milyavskaya is available to discuss goal setting and New Year\u2019s resolutions. Milyavskaya\u2019s research examines why people are successful in the pursuit of certain goals, but not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":62539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[123,99],"class_list":["post-62538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-cognitive-science","tag-psychology"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62541,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62538\/revisions\/62541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}