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Cătălina Köpetz

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Education
  • Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, 2007
  • M.A. in Social Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002
  • M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France, 2000
  • BA. in Psychology, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1998
Honors and Awards
  • New School for Social Sciences and Open Society Institute Student Research Fellow, 1995-1996
  • M.A. awarded with Honors (félicitations du jury), Université de Savoie, France, 2000
  • Study Abroad Graduate Fellowship, Romanian Government, 1999-2000
  • Visiting Research Fellowship, French Government, 2001
  • Graduate Assistantship, University of Maryland, 2001-2007
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Diversity Fund Award, 2002
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Student Travel Award, 2002
Selected Publications
  • Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2009). The Role of Goal-Systems in Self-Regulation. E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.) The psychology of action (Vol 2): The mechanisms of human action (pp.350). Oxford University Press.
  • Kopetz, C. & Kruglanski, A. W. (2008). Effects of Accessibility and Instantiation on the Use of Piecemeal and Category Information in Impression Formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(5), 692-705.
  • Kopetz, C., Kruglanski, A. W. Chen, X., & Orehek, E. (accepted for publication). Goal systemic effects in the context of choice and social judgment. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
  • Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2007). What is so Special (and Non-Special) about Goals? A View from the Cognitive Perspective. To appear in G. B. Moskowitz and H. Grant (Eds.) Goals. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Kruglanski, A. W., & Kopetz, C. (2007). Confronting the self-control challenge: Unpacking the dilemma and its modes of resolution. To appear in R. Hassin, K. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.) Self-control: Oxford University Press.
  • Kopetz, C, Fishbach, A, & Kruglanski, A. (2008). Taking Alternative Goals into Account: Multifinality Constraints on Means Generation. Manuscript under review at Journal for Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Desrichard, O & Kopetz, C. (2005). A threat in the elder: The impact of task instructions and self-efficacy on memory performance in the elderly. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35(4), 537-552.
In preparation....
  • Kopetz, C. & Lejuez, C. W.  Implicit motivational consequences of engaging in sex for drugs among female crack cocaine users.
  • Kopetz, C., Reynolds, E. K., Lejuez, C. W., & Kruglanski, A. W.  Risky sexual behavior associated with crack cocaine versus heroin use among drug users dependent on both drugs.
  • Kopetz, C., Bornovalova, M. A., & Lejuez, C. W.  If impulsivity is a multi-dimensional construct than why isn't it treated as such?
  • Kopetz, C., Orehek, E., & Kruglanski, A. W.  The “what”, “how”, and “why” research on imitation in human behavior: An integrative perspective.
  • Kopetz, C., Orehek, E., Dechense, M.Kopetz, C., Orehek, E., Dechense, M., & Kruglanski, A. W.  Mimicry as means suggestion.