Todd Heatherton

     
Institution
Dartmouth College

Current Position
Champion International Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Toronto, 1989

Research Interests
Evolution/Genetics
Personality
Self/Identity
Social Cognition

Laboratory Home Page
Center for Social Brain Sciences

Courses Taught
Biological Basis of Social and Personality Psychology
Experimental Study of Social Behavior
Social Psychology
The Adaptive Social Brain
The Psychology of Stanley Schachter

 
Todd Heatherton
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
6207 Moore Hall
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (603) 646-3181
Fax: (603) 646-1419

Todd Heatherton
Todd Heatherton is the Champion International Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He has been on the executive committees of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, the Association of Researchers in Personality, and the International Society of Self and Identity and has served on the editorial boards of Psychological Science, Social Neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, and Review of General Psychology. He is currently Associate Editor at the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and previously served as a member of the SPIP Study Section at NIH. He is author or co-author of more than 100 articles, chapters and books. He received the Petra Shattuck Award for Teaching Excellence from the Harvard Extension School in 1994. In 2005, he received the award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Social and Personality Psychology from SPSP for his role in creating the annual SPSP meeting.

His current research interests include self-regulation and social brain sciences (executive functions and self-control, self-regulation failure and disinhibition, negative affect and self-regulation, and neural correlates of self-referemce); and interpersonal aspects of self (e.g., self-esteem, interpersonal rejection, theory of mind, stigma). This research is grounded in the traditions of personality and social psychology, although the guiding theories, as well as the techniques and methodologies that he uses (e.g., fMRI), are strongly influenced by research in cognitive neuroscience.


Books:

  • Baumeister, R. F., Heatherton, T. F., & Tice, D. (1994). Losing control: How and why people fail at self-regulation. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
  • Gazzaniga, M. S., Heatherton, T. F., & Halpern, D. F. (2009). Psychological science: Mind, brain, and behavior (3rd ed.). New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Heatherton, T. F., Kleck, R. E., Hebl, M., & Hull, J. G. (Eds.). (2000). The social psychology of stigma. New York: Guilford Press.

Journal Articles:

  • Heatherton, T. F., Macrae, C. N., & Kelley, W. M. (2004). A social brain sciences approach to studying the self. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 190-193.
  • Heatherton, T. F., Wyland, C. L., Macrae, C. N., Demos, K. E., Denny, B. T., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Medial prefrontal activity differentiates self from close others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 18-25.
  • Krendl, A. C., Macrae, C. N., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2006). The good, the bad, and the ugly: An fMRI Investigation of the functional anatomic correlates of stigma. Social Neuroscience, 1, 5-15.
  • Krendl, A.C., & Richeson, J.A., Kelley, W.M. & Heatherton, T.F. (2008). The negative consequences of threat: An fmri investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying women’s underperformance in math. Psychological Science, 19, 168-175.
  • Mitchell, J. P., Heatherton, T. F., Kelley, W. M., Wyland, C. L., Wegner, D. M., & Macrae, C. N. (2007). Separating sustained from transient aspects of cognitive control during thought suppression. Psychological Science, 18, 292-297.
  • Moran, J. M., Macrae, C. N., Heatherton, T. F., Wyland, C. L., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Neuroanatomical evidence for distinct cognitive and affective components of self. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1586-1594.
  • Richeson, J. A., Baird, A. A., Gordon, H. L., Heatherton, T. F., Wyland, C. L., Trawalter, S., & Shelton, J. N. (2003). An fMRI investigation of the impact of interracial contact on executive function. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 1323-1328.
  • Somerville, L. H., Heatherton, T. F., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Disambiguating anterior cingulate cortex function: Differential response to experiences of expectancy violation and social rejection. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1007-1008.
  • Vohs, K. D., & Heatherton, T. F. (2000). Self-regulatory failure: A resource depletion approach. Psychological Science, 11, 249-254.
  • Wyland, C. L., Kelley, W. M., Macrae, C. N., Gordon, H. L., & Heatherton, T. F. (2003). Neural correlates of thought suppression. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1863-1867.

Other Publications:

  • Heatherton, T. F., Krendl, A. C., Macrae, C. N., & Kelley, W. M. (2007). A social brain sciences approach to understanding the self. In C. Sedikides & S. Spencer (Eds.), Frontiers in social psychology: The self (pp. 3-20). New York: Psychology Press.
  • Macrae, C. N., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2004). A self less ordinary: The medial prefrontal cortex and you. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), Cognitive Neurosciences III (pp. 1067-1076). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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