Alysia Burbidge

PostDoctoral Appointments

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern Calfornia, 06/01/2024 –

Summary Statement of Research Interests

My research focuses on the critical role of self and identity in motivation. Currently, my work focuses on how we can leverage identity-based motivation to empower middle school students and set them up for success as they prepare to enter high school and look beyond toward their futures.

Other branches of my work look at how goal-oriented behavior shapes and is shaped by our tendencies to interpret difficult experiences as signals of importance or impossibility. Throughout my work, I use a variety of approaches, including experimental methods, multilevel modeling, text analysis, and real-world intervention work to examine these questions.