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News & Media

HirtLab

We are very proud of our HirtLab researchers and their achievements. Find out what is happening in the lab right now by reading our Current Announcements! Want to catch up on the history of the HirtLab? Check out our All-Time News!

Current Announcements

FALL 2023

HirtLab NEWS

Not accepting Graduate Students for Fall 2023.

Media

May 3rd, 2019 

  • Congratulations to Julie Eyink!  Julie successfully defended her dissertation and graduates today!  She will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Southern Indiana.

Spring 2017 

  • Congratulations to Julie Eyink!  She will be a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow at Butler University’s Psychology Department next year!

April 17, 2020

  • Congratulations to our current graduate student, Janelle Sherman, for receiving the Gordon Kato Summer Research Award!
  • Congratulations to former graduate student, Julie Eyink, for receiving the Irving J. Saltzman Award (Outstanding Recent PhD Graduate)!

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  • Congratulations to our two honors theses students, Alex Coulter and Cordin Mirise, for receiving the Sharon Stephens Brehm Excellence in Research Awards!

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September 6th, 2016 

  • Purchase Dr. Hirt’s book on self-regulation and ego-control!

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October 7th, 2016

  • Dr. Hirt was featured in an original documentary regarding the fan ship surrounding the Chicago Cubs.

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March 2020

  • Welcome to Samantha Heiman, who will be joining our lab as a graduate student in the Fall of 2020!

August 2019

  • Congratulations to Janelle Sherman and Hector Ruiz for passing qualification examinations!

January 2019

  • Welcome to Michal Nowak!  Michal is a graduate student from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.  He will be joining us for the semester and conducting self-control research. 

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August 2021

  • Listen to 82nd podcast episode, of The Nick Lugo Show on Spotify, where Dr. Edward Hirtand Nick discuss meaningful concepts related to goal-progression, motivation, and self-handicapping. 

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April 11, 2016

  • Listen to Dr. Hirt's interview for Sports Illustrated’s weekly podcast, “This is Your Brain on Sports", where he speaks about sports fandom and self-identification.

Listen now

August 30, 2016

  • Featured publication by Julie Eyink and Dr. Hirt find that people are more likely to self-handicap during their preferred time of day. Read a press release by New York Magazine about the research article.

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August 22, 2018

  • Check out SPSP’s press release on a featured lab publication (by Hirt Lab alum Dr. Lile Jia and Dr. Hirt) examining how college students balance academics with college sports.

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  • Upcoming Trivia Night 

December 7, 2020

  • Congratulations to our Hirt Lab Trivia Night Winners: Remi Musselman, Anh Luu, and Jaycee Hopper!