Todd McElroy
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My research interests currently focus on several areas but all tend to converge on understanding the processing of decision tasks. My work in this area focuses on examining the very early stages of processing, how individual differences play out in the process and how contextual factors influence this processing. I have similar interests in understanding feelings of regret that people posses over decisions that they have made. I am also interested in how individual differences affect human behavior, abilities, perceptions and feelings. I also have interest in investigating the influence of laterality differences in individual thoughts and behavior.
Primary Interests:
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2006). Framing and collective importance in a group based task. Social Cognition, 24, 496-510.
- McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2004). Framing and hemispheric specialization. Brain and Cognition, 55, 572-580.
- McElroy, T., & Seta, J. J. (2003). Framing effects: An analytic-holistic perspective. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 610-617.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Seta, J. J., Seta, C. E., & McElroy, T. (2002). Strategies for reducing the stress of negative life experiences: An averaging/summation analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1574-1585.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Social/Personality
- Introductory Psychology
- Personality Psychology
- Research Methods
- Social Psychology
Todd McElroy
Department of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina 28608
United States of America
- Phone: (828) 262-2720
- Fax: (828) 262-2974