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Edward R. Hirt

Psychology · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1983
Behavioral Health and InterventionsSocial and Intergroup PsychologyDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsMotivation and Self-Concept in SportsMental Health Research Topics

Publications

133

Citations

5,167

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

44

Publishing since 1983

Research summary
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Edward R. Hirt studies how people regulate their own behavior, including self-control, willpower, and motivation, and how these processes play out in real-world contexts like health decisions, sports fandom, and political attitudes. His work uses social-psychological experiments to examine topics such as ego depletion (the idea that willpower can be temporarily used up), self-handicapping, and how social norms shape behavior. Recent studies have also addressed pandemic-related behaviors like mask wearing and vaccine hesitancy.

Self-control and willpowerMotivation and self-regulationSocial influence and normsSports psychology and fandomHealth and political attitudes

Publication activity has been fairly steady but modest over the past decade, averaging roughly one to two publications per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NIH R03MH053876Jan 1995 – Dec 1996 · $37k awarded

    MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF EXPECTANCY USE

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 478 established Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 5,167cohort median 2,193
h-index: 36cohort median 22
Publications / year (recent): 1.2cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 50% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 15 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 4 publications4192020: 4 publications4202021: 3 publications212022: 1 publication222023: 2 publications23242025: 2 publications252026: 1 publication26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 1 collaborator at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Elsevier eBooks×4
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science×3
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology×3
  • Psychological Science×1
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science×1
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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