Publications of Grainne Fitzsimons

Journal Articles

  1. Wingrove, S; Paek, JJW; Ponce de Leon, R; Fitzsimons, GM (2023). Tying the value of goals to social class.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 125(4), 699-719.
  2. Wingrove, S; Fitzsimons, GM (2022). Interpersonal consequences of conveying goal ambition. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 172.
  3. Paek, JJW; Zee, KS; Fitzsimons, GM; Higgins, ET (2022). Congratulations, So Happy for You! Promotion Motivation Predicts Social Support for Positive Events. Motivation Science, 8(4), 285-297.
  4. Fitzsimons, GM (2022). Agency and Assistance in Transactive Goal Systems. Psychological Inquiry, 33(1), 35-37.
  5. Sackett, E; Fitzsimons, GM (2021). The Effects of Extra-Team Goal Disclosure on Team Performance, Viability, and Satisfaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 11.
  6. Moore, SG; Fitzsimons, GM; Fitzsimons, GJ (2020). She’ll take two: Relationship interdependence and negative emotion in everyday choice for others. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 5(3), 335-344.
  7. Reynolds, JP; Webb, TL; McCulloch, KC; Fitzsimons, GM (2019). Self-regulatory consequences of observing others making goal progress: A longitudinal field study in weight loss groups.. British journal of health psychology, 24(4), 970-981.
  8. Briskin, JL; Kopetz, CE; Fitzsimons, GM; Slatcher, RB (2019). For Better or for Worse? Outsourcing Self-Regulation and Goal Pursuit. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(2), 181-192.
  9. Kim, JY; Fitzsimons, GM; Kay, AC (2018). Lean in messages increase attributions of women's responsibility for gender inequality.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(6), 974-1001.
  10. Fitzsimons, GM; Finkel, EJ (2018). Transactive-Goal-Dynamics Theory: A Discipline-Wide Perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(5), 332-338.
  11. Brick, DJ; Fitzsimons, GM; Chartrand, TL; Fitzsimons, GJ (2018). Erratum: Coke vs. Pepsi: Brand compatibility, relationship power, and life satisfaction [Journal of Consumer Research, 44, 5, (2018) (991-1014)] DOI: 10.1093/jcr/ucx079. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(5), 1174.
  12. Brick, DJ; Fitzsimons, GM; Chartrand, TL; Fitzsimons, GJ (2018). Coke vs. Pepsi: Brand compatibility, relationship power, and life satisfaction. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(5), 991-1014.
  13. Green, PI; Finkel, EJ; Fitzsimons, GM; Gino, F (2017). The energizing nature of work engagement: Toward a new need-based theory of work motivation. Research in Organizational Behavior, 37, 1-18.
  14. Shea, CT; Fitzsimons, GM (2016). Personal goal pursuit as an antecedent to social network structure. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 137, 45-57.
  15. Laurin, K; Fitzsimons, GM; Finkel, EJ; Carswell, KL; vanDellen, MR; Hofmann, W; Lambert, NM; Eastwick, PW; Fincham, FD; Brown, PC (2016). Power and the pursuit of a partner's goals.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 110(6), 840-868.
  16. Fitzsimons, GM; Sackett, E; Finkel, EJ (2016). Transactive Goal Dynamics Theory: A relational goals perspective on work teams and leadership. Research in Organizational Behavior, 36, 135-155.
  17. Fitzsimons, GM; Finkel, EJ; vanDellen, MR (2015). Transactive goal dynamics.. Psychological review, 122(4), 648-673.
  18. Hofmann, W; Finkel, EJ; Fitzsimons, GM (2015). Close relationships and self-regulation: How relationship satisfaction facilitates momentary goal pursuit.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 109(3), 434-452.
  19. Koval, CZ; vanDellen, MR; Fitzsimons, GM; Ranby, KW (2015). The burden of responsibility: Interpersonal costs of high self-control.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 108(5), 750-766.
  20. Fitzsimons, GM; Finkel, EJ (2015). Goal interdependence. Current Opinion in Psychology, 1, 10-13.
  21. Hui, CM; Finkel, EJ; Fitzsimons, GM; Kumashiro, M; Hofmann, W (2014). The Manhattan effect: when relationship commitment fails to promote support for partners' interests.. Journal of personality and social psychology, 106(4), 546-570.
  22. vanDellen, MR; Shea, CT; Davisson, EK; Koval, CZ; Fitzsimons, GM (2014). Motivated misperception: Self-regulatory resources affect goal appraisals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 118-124.
  23. Light, AE; Fitzsimons, GM (2014). Contextualizing Marriage as a Means and a Goal. Psychological Inquiry, 25(1), 88-94.
  24. Fitzsimons, GM; Chartrand, TL; Fitzsimons, GJ (2008). Automatic Effects of Brand Exposure on Motivated Behavior: How Apple Makes You "Think Different". Journal of Consumer Research, 35(1), 21-35.
  25. Berger, J; Fitzsimons, G (2008). Dogs on the Street, Pumas on Your Feet: How Cues in the Environment Influence Product Evaluation and Choice. Journal of Marketing Research, 45(1), 1-14.
  26. Fitzsimons, GJ; Nunes, JC; Williams, P (2007). License to Sin: The Liberating Role of Reporting Expectations. Journal of Consumer Research, 34(1), 22-31.

Chapters in Books

  1. vanDellen, MR; Beam, LAB; Fitzsimons, GM "How self-control promotes health through relationships." The Routledge International Handbook of Self-Control in Health and Well-Being: Concepts, Theories, and Central Issues. January, 2017: 390-401.
  2. Fitzsimons, G; Bargh, JA "Automatic self-regulation." Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications. Ed. Baumeister, RF; Vohs, KD Guilford, February, 2015: 151-170.
  3. Fitzsimons, G; van Dellen, MR "Relationship goals." Handbook of personality and social psychology: Interpersonal relations and group processes. Ed. Simpson, JA; Dovidio, JF American Psychological Association, February, 2015
  4. Fitzsimons, G; Anderson, JE "Interpersonal cognition." Handbook of Social Cognition. Ed. Carlston, D Oxford Press, February, 2015
  5. Fitzsimons, G; Kay, AC; Anderson, JE "Negative Life Events and Meaning." Psychology of Meaning. Ed. Markham, K American Psychological Association, February, 2015
  6. Chen, S; Fitzsimons, GM; Andersen, SM "Automaticity in close relationships." Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes. January, 2013: 133-172.
  7. Cavallo, JV; Fitzsimons, GM "Goal competition, conflict, coordination, and completion how intergoal dynamics affect self-regulation." Taylor and Francis Ltd 5. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, January, 2012: 267-300.
  8. Cavallo, JV; Fitzsimons, GM "Goal Competition, Conflict, Coordination, and Completion: How Intergoal Dynamics Affect Self-Regulation." Goal-Directed Behavior. January, 2012: 267-299.
  9. Fitzsimons, G; Finkel, EJ "Outsourcing effort to close others." The 12th Ontario symposium: The science of the couple. Ed. Campbell, L; Laguardia, J; Olsen, J; Zanna, M Psychology Press, 2012: 41-57.
  10. Fitzsimons, GM; Anderson, JE "Interdependent goals and relationship conflict." The Psychology of Social Conflict and Aggression. Routledge, May, 2011: 185-199.
  11. Fitzsimons, GM; Friesen, J; Orehek, E; Kruglanski, AW "Progress-Induced goal shifting as a self-regulatory strategy." Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes. PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, January, 2011: 183-197.
  12. Fitzsimons, G; Finkel, EJ "The effects of self-regulation on social relationships." Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications. Ed. Vohs, KD; Bauermeister, RF Guilford, 2011: 407-421.
  13. Fitzsimons, G; Cavallo, JC "Inter-Goal Dynamics." Goal-Directed Behavior. Ed. Aarts, H; Elliot, AJ Psychology Press/Taylor and Frances, 2011: 269-301.
  14. Fitzsimons, G; Anderson, JE "Interdependent goals and relationship conflict." The psychology of social conflict and aggression. Ed. Forgas, JP; Kruglanski, AW; Williams, KD Psychology Press, 2011: 185-200.
  15. Fitzsimons, G; Friesen, GM; Orehek, E; Kruglanski, AW "Progress-induced goal-shifting." Self-regulation: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes. Ed. Forgas, JP; Baumeister, RF; Tice, DM Psychology Press, 2009: 181-194.
  16. Fitzsimons, G "Goal influences in relationship." Encyclopedia of human relationships. Ed. Reis, H; Sprecher, S Sage, 2009
  17. Fitzsimons, G; Chen, S; Andersen, SM "Automaticity in interpersonal relationships." Social psychology and the unconscious: The automaticity of higher mental processes. Ed. Bargh, JA Psychology Press, 2007: 133-172.
  18. Fitzsimons, G "Pursuing goals and perceiving others: A self-regulatory perspective on interpersonal relationships." Intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Ed. Vohs, KD; Finkel, EJ Guilford, 2006: 32-35.
  19. Chartrand, TL; Fitzsimons, GM "Friends and Neighbors, Goals and Labors: Interpersonal and Self Regulation." Interpersonal Cognition. Ed. Fitzsimons, GM; Shah, JY; Bargh, JA Guilford, 2005: 103-125.
  20. Kay, AC; Jost, JT; Fitzsimons, GM "The Ideological Animal: On the Epistemic and Existential Bases of System Justification." Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. Ed. Greenberg, J; Koole, SL; Pyszczynsk, T Guilford Press, 2004
  21. Fitzsimons, G; Bargh, JA; McKenna, K "The self, online." Motivated social perception: The Ontario symposium. Ed. Spencer, SJ; Fein, S; Zanna, MP; Olson, J Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002: 195-214.