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Todd McElroy, Ph.D.
 Dr. Todd McElroy
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
  • How Self-esteem and affect influence risk.
  • The Influence of circadian type and time of day on decision choice.
  • The influence of Action/inaction, sexual behavior, counterfactual constriction on feelings of regret.
  • Dispositional action Orientation and feelings of regret.
  • Individual differences in eating behavior
  • How Preference-for-consistency Influences factors for Regret.
  • Temporal proximity and how if may effect decision choice.
  • The influence of intergroup status differentials on subgroup bias.
  • Uncoscious influences on decision choice.
  • How optimism and pessimism influence risky-choice

 
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Department Chair: James C. Denniston dennistonjc@appstate.edu
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