Gabriele Oettingen

About The Author

Gabriele Oettingen is a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg and the author of more than 100 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. Professor Oettingen lives in New York City and in Hamburg, Germany.

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