Gabriele Oettingen

Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at at New York University and the University of Hamburg and the author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters on the effects of future thought on cognition, emotion, and behavior. She is the author of “Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation” and the creator of the mental exercise and free mobile app, WOOP. She has written articles for Harvard Business Review and New York Magazine while her research has been featured in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, NPR and The Washington Post.