Primary Interests:
- Evolution and Genetics
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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Todd Heatherton is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Human Relations 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 150 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. He was elected to serve as President of SPSP for 2011.
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:
- Cloutier, J., Heatherton, T.F., Whalen, P.J., & Kelley, W.M. (2008). Are attractive people rewarding? Sex differences in the neural substrates of facial attractiveness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 941-951.
- Heatherton, T.F. (2011). Neuroscience of Self and Self-Regulation. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 363-390.
- 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.
- Kelley, W.T., Macrae, C.N., Wyland, C., Caglar, S., Inati, S. & Heatherton, T.F. (2002). Finding the self? An event-related fMRI Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 785-794
- 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.
- Macrae, C.N., Moran, J.M., Heatherton, T.F., Banfield, J.F. & Kelley, W.M. (2004). Medial prefrontal activity predicts memory for self. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 647-654
- 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.
- Mitchell, J.P., Heatherton, T.F., Macrae, C.N. (2002). Distinct neural systems subserve person and object knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 15238-15243.
- Moran, J.M., Heatherton, T.F., & Kelley, W.M. (2009). Modulation of cortical midline structures by implicit and explicit self-reference evaluation. Social Neuroscience, 4, 197-211.
- 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.
- Sargent, J.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2009). Comparison of trends for adolescent smoking and smoking in movies, 1990-2007. Journal of the American Medical Association, 301, 2211-2213.
- 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.
- Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W.M., & Heatherton, T.F. (2010). Self-esteem modulates medial prefrontal cortical responses to evaluative social feedback. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 3005-3013.
- Vohs, K.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2000). Self-regulatory failure: A resource depletion approach. Psychological Science, 11, 249-254.
Other Publications:
- Heatherton, T.F. & Wheatley, T. (2010). Social neuroscience. In R.F. Baumeister & E. Finkel (Eds.), Advanced Social Psychology. Pp. 575- 612. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Wagner, D.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2011). Giving in to temptation: The emerging cognitive neuroscience of self-regulatory failure. In R.F. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds), The Handbook of Self-Regulation. (2nd edition). Pp. 41-63. New York: Guilford Press.
Courses Taught:
- Human Relations
- Social Brain Sciences
- The Adaptive Social Brain
- The Human Self
- The Psychology of Stanley Schachter
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Todd Heatherton
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
6207 Moore Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
United States
Phone: (603) 646-3181
Fax: (603) 646-1419