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Todd Heatherton

Champion International Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1989

Office: (603) 646-2737, Moore 353
todd.f.heatherton@dartmouth.edu

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Interests

Professor Heatherton's recent research takes a social brain sciences approach, which combines theories and methods of evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and cognitive neuroscience to examine the neural underpinnings of social behavior. Much of this research examines processes related to self, particular self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-referential processing.

Books

Gazzaniga, M.S. & Heatherton, T.F. (2006). The Psychological Science: Mind, Brain, and Behavior. (2nd edition). W.W. Norton.

Hull, J.G. (Eds). (2000). The Social Psychology of Stigma. Guilford Press.  Order Information

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

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

Selected publications

Mitchell, J.P., Heatherton, T.F., Kelley, W.M., Wyland, C.L., Wegner, D.M., & Macrae, C.N. (in press). Separating sustained from transient aspects of cognitive control during thought suppression. Psychological Science

Moran, J.M., Macrae, C.N., Heatherton, T.F., Wyland, C.L., & Kelley, W.M. (in press). Neuroanatomical evidence for distinct cognitive and affective components of self. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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

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.

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.

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

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.

 

Last Updated: 10/11/07