Emily Balcetis

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Emily Balcetis has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Andrew Huberman (Dec 2025). In the episode "How to Set & Achieve Goals" on Huberman Lab, Andrew Huberman references Emily Balcetis to support the idea that visual focus on goals can enhance performance and lower perceived effort. He highlights her work at NYU, emphasizing her contributions to understanding how motivations and emotions shape visual perception in goal pursuit.

Emily E. Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regards to visual perception.