Todd F. Heatherton, Ph.D.

Champion International Professor

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Dartmouth College

Moore Hall 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Voice: (603) 646-3181
Fax: (603) 646-1419

e-mail: heatherton@dartmouth.edu


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General Information

Education

Association Memberships

Research Interests

Social Brain Sciences Personality and Social Psychology
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Publications

Books

Gazzaniga, M.S. Heatherton, T.F. & Halpern, D.F. (2010). Psychological Science (3rd Edition) W.W. Norton. Order Information

Heatherton, T.F., Kleck, R.E., Hebl, M. & Hull, J.G. (Eds). (2000). Stigma: Social Psychological Perspectives. Guilford Press. Order Information

Heatherton, T.F. & Weinberger, J.L. (Eds.). (1994). Can personality change? Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association. Order Information

Baumeister, R.F., Heatherton, T.F., & Tice, D. (1994). Losing control: How and why people fail at self-regulation. San Diego: Academic Press.

Representative Articles

Heatherton, T.F., & Polivy, J. (1991). Development and validation of a scale for measuring state self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 895-910.

Heatherton, T.F., Herman, C.P., & Polivy, J. (1991). The effects of physical threat and ego threat on eating. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 138-143.

Heatherton, T.F., & Baumeister, R.F. (1991). Binge eating as an escape from self-awareness. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 86-108.

Baumeister, R.F., Heatherton, T.F., & Tice, D. (1993). When ego threats lead to self-regulation failure: Negative consequences of high self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 141-156.

Baumeister, R.F., Stillwell, A.M., & Heatherton, T.F. (1994). Guilt: An interpersonal approach. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 243-267.

Heatherton, T.F. & Nichols, P.A. (1994). Personal accounts of successful versus failed attempts at life change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 664-675.

Heatherton, T.F., Striepe, M., & Wittenberg, L. (1998). Emotional distress and disinhibited eating: The role of self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 301-313.

Heatherton, T.F., & Vohs, K.D. (2000). Interpersonal evaluations following threats to self: Role of self-esteem Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 725-736.

Vohs, K.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2000). Self-regulatory failure: A resource depletion approach. Psychological Science, 11, 249-254.

Vohs, K.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2001). Self-esteem and threats to self: Implications for self-construals and interpersonal perceptions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 1103-1118.

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.

Turk, D.J., Heatherton, T.F., Kelley, W.M., Funnell, M.G., Gazzaniga, M.S., Macrae, C.N. (2002). Mike or me? Self-recognition in a split-brain patient. Nature Neuroscience.5, 841-842.

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.

Turk, D.J., Heatherton, T.F., Macrae, C.N., Kelley, W.M., & Gazzaniga, M.S. (2003). Out of contact, out of mind: The distributed nature of self. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1001, 65-79.

Vohs, K.D. & Heatherton, T.F. (2003). The effects of self-esteem and ego threat on interpersonal appraisals of men and women: A naturalistic study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 11, 1407-1420.

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.

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.

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.

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

Turk, D.J., Banfield, J.F., Walling, B.O., Heatherton, T.F., Grafton, S.T., Handy, T.C., Gazzaniga, M.S., & Macrae, C.N. (2004). From facial cue to dinner for two: The neural substrates of personal choice. Neuroimage, 22, 1281-1290.

Sargent, J.D., Beach, M.L., Adachi-Mejia, A.M., Gibson, J.J., Titus-Ernstoff, L., Carusi, C., Swain, S., Heatherton, T.F., & Dalton, M.A. (2005). Exposure to movie smoking: Its relation to smoking initiation among U.S. adolescents. Pediatrics, 116, 1183-1191.

Keel, P.K., Heatherton, T.F., Dorer, D.J., Joiner, T.E, & Zalta, A.K. (2006). Point prevalence of bulimia nervosa in 1982, 1992, and 2002. Psychological Medicine, 65, 119-127.

Bardone-Cone, A.M., Abramson, L.Y., Vohs, K.D., Heatherton, T.F., & Joiner, T.E., Jr. (2006). Predicting bulimic symptoms: An interactive model of self-efficacy, perfectionism, and perceived weight status. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 27-42

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.

Tickle J.J, Hull J.G., Sargent J.D., Dalton M.A, & Heatherton T.F. (2006). A structural equation model of social influences and exposure to media smoking on adolescent smoking. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 117-129

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.

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

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.

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.

Keel, P. K., Baxter, M. G., Heatherton, T. F., & Joiner, T. E. (2007). A 20-year longitudinal study of body weight, dieting, and eating disorder symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 422-432.

Cacioppo, J.T., Amaral, D., Blanchard, J.J., Cameron, J.L., Carter, C.S., Crews, D.P., Fiske, S., Heatherton, T.F., Johnson, M.K., Kozak, M.J., Levenson, R.W., Lord, C., Miller, E.K., Ochsner, K., Raichle, M.E., Shea, M.T., Taylor, S.E., Young, L.J., & Quinn, K.J. (2007). Social neuroscience: Progress and promise. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 99-123.

Mar, R.A., Kelley, W.M., Heatherton, T.F., & Macrae, C.N. (2007). Detecting agency from the biological motion of veridical versus animated agents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 199-205.

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.

Heatherton, T.F. & Krendl, A.C. (2008). Neuroscience. In W.A. Darity, Jr. (Ed). International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. (pp 484-485). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.

Holm-Denoma, J.M., Joiner, T.E., Vohs, K.D., & Heatherton, T.F. (2008). "The 'Freshman Fifteen' (the freshman five actually): Predictors and possible explanations. Health Psychology, 27, S3-S9.

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.

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. & Sargent, J.D. (2009). Does watching smoking in movies promote teenage smoking? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 63-67.

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.

Krendl, A.C., Heatherton, T.F., & Kensinger, E.A. (in press). Aging minds & twisting attitudes: An fMRI investigation of age differences in inhibiting prejudice. Psychology and Aging.

Heatherton, T.F. & Krendl, A.C. (2009). Social Emotions: Neuroimaging. In Squire, L. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, vol. 9, (pp. 35-39). Oxford: Academic Press.


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