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| Department of Psychology Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 Phone: 828.262.2720 Fax: 828.262.2974 Email: mcelroygt@appstate.edu Website: http://www.appstate.edu/~mcelroygt |
| Education |
| Ph.D., 2003, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| M.A., 2000, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| B.A., 1995, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Research Interests |
My background of research is focused in the area of Judgment and Decision Making (JDM). My current research interests focus on several areas. I am interested in understanding psychological processing that takes place when individuals make decisions. I am working to understand the decision-making process holistically, using prior theoretical understanding to search for an encompassing view . My work in this area examines the very early stages of processing, how individual differences come to play in the process and how contextual factors influence this process. I have similar interests in understanding feelings of regret that people posses over decisions that they have made or will make in the future. I also have interest in investigating the influence of laterality in rational choice. |
| Representative Publications |
McElroy, T., Conrad, J. (In press). American views on the Irish American: Implications from the Irish stereotype. Irish Journal of Psychology. |
McElroy, T., & Corbin, J. (In press) Affective Imposition Influences Risky-Choice: Handedness points to the hemispheres. Laterality. |
| Dickinson, D. L., & McElroy, T. (In press). Flying Airplanes: Realizing Circadian Effects (FARCE). Annals of Improbable Research. |
McElroy, T., Conrad, J. & Mascari, D. (2009). Rationality: The Desire For An Absolute Without A Cause. Cognitive Psychology Research Developments. 261-271. |
| McElroy, T., & Conrad, J. (2009). Thinking about product attributes: Investigating the role of unconscious valence processing in attribute framing. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12, 157-161. [Request reprint] |
| McCormick, M., & McElroy, T. (2009). Healthy choices in context: How contextual cues can influence the persuasiveness of framed health messages. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 248-255. [PDF Format] |
Seta, C.E., Seta, J.J., McElroy, T., & Hatz, J. (2008). Regret: The roles of consistency-fit and counterfactual salience. Social Cognition, 26, 700-719. |
| McElroy, T., & Dowd. K. (2007). Action orientation, consistency and feelings of regret. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 333-341. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T., Seta, J. J. (2007). Framing the frame: How task goals determine the likelihood and direction of framing effects. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 251-256. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T. (2007). The simulation heuristic. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
| McElroy, T., Seta, J. J., & Waring, D. (2007). Reflections of the Self: How Self-esteem Imposes onto Risky-choice Framing Tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 223-240. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T. (2007). Rational decision making, dual processes and framing:Current thoughts and perspectives. In: Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies. |
| McElroy, T. & Mascari, D. (2007). When is it going to happen? How temporal distance influences processing for risk-choice framing tasks. Social Cognition, 25, 550-572. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T. & Dowd, K. (2007). Susceptibility to anchoring effects: How openness-to-experience influences responses to anchoring cues. Judgment and Decision Making, 2, 48-53. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T., & Mosteller, L. (2006). The influence of circadian type, time of day and class difficulty on students’ grades. Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 4, 611-622. |
| McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2006). Framing and collective importance in a group based task. Social Cognition, 24, 496-510. [PDF Format] |
| Seta, J. J., Seta, C. E. & McElroy, T. (2006). Better Than Better-Than-Average (or Not): Elevated and Depressed Self-evaluations Following Unfavorable Social Comparisons. Self and Identity, 5, 51-72. |
| McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2004). On the other hand am I rational? Hemispheric activation and the framing effect. Brain and Cognition, 55, 572-580. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2003). Framing effects: An analytic-holistic perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 610 617. [PDF Format] |
| Seta, J. J., Seta, C. E., & McElroy, T. (2003). Attributional biases in the service of stereotype maintenance: A schema-maintenance through compensation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 151-163. |
| Seta, J. J., Seta, C. E., & McElroy, T. (2002). Strategies for educing the stress of negative life experiences: An averaging/summation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1574-1585. |
| Seta, J. J., McElroy, T., & Seta, C. E. (2001). To do or not to do: Desirability and consistency mediate judgments of regret. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 861-870. |
| Current Topics of Research |
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