Karolina Lempert Ph.D.

About

Karolina Lempert, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University. She directs a cognitive neuroscience lab that investigates how factors such as emotion and memory influence choices. Karolina was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and she was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2021. Karolina received her B.A. from Harvard University in 2009 and her Ph.D. from New York University in 2016. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021.

Recent Posts

Can Reminiscing About the Past Make Us Less Impulsive?

A few studies have suggested that recalling the past with fondness and gratitude can increase self-control, but a recent meta-analysis challenges this idea.

What Daniel Kahneman Taught Me

Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, passed away last week. Here are some of the lessons we can learn from his research and his career.

Delayed Gratification: Is It About Self-Control or Culture?

Recent research shows that the ability to delay gratification may depend in part on cultural norms about what people usually wait for.

Making Decisions: We Generate Options Before Deciding

Recent research has focused on what makes some options come to mind more easily. Since most decisions are open-ended, this work has powerful implications for making decisions.

What's Really Worth Waiting For?

Do you quit waiting for things when you don't know how long they will take? Do you step out of lines or cancel rides? It doesn't mean you lack self-control. Here's why.

Bad News: Negativity Increases Online News Consumption

If a headline makes you sad, you may be more likely to read the news story. Experimental evidence from real-world online news consumption data finds that emotion drives clicks.

Why We Think Things Could Always Be Better

Wondering why you are never satisfied with what you already have? It might be because we tend to imagine how things could be better, rather than worse.

As We Get Older, We Overlook Past Slights

Older adults are more likely to fail to avoid others who were previously unfair.

The Greatest Human Invention?

A fascinating new book, "The Invention of Tomorrow," takes a deep dive into the origins and functions of the human capacity for foresight.

Financial Impatience Across the Globe

A new study found that financial impatience is practically universal, but economic inequality and inflation exacerbate this tendency.