My name is Hayley Svensson (she/her) and I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oklahoma's TSET Health Promotion Research Center. I earned my Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Rutgers University where I was in the Regulation, Action, and Motivated Perception (RAMP) Lab.
I am interested in how people respond to setbacks and obstacles during goal pursuit as well as how we can leverage motivation science to address pressing questions in behavioral medicine.
Talk given at the 2026 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
In my primary lines of research, I examine:
Individual and interpersonal processes that shape how people navigate obstacles during goal pursuit
Challenges in behavioral medicine and education through a psychological and motivation science lens