Departments

• Psychological and Brain Sciences

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~psych/people/faculty/heatherton.html

Contact Information

Email: todd.f.heatherton@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3181
Office: 6207 Moore Hall

Education

B.Sc. University of Calgary; M.A. University of Toronto; Ph.D. University of Toronto

Areas of Expertise

Social neuroscience; psychological aspects of the self; addictions and media influence

Selected Works

• Heatherton, T F, C N Macrae, and W M Kelley, "A Social Brain Sciences Approach to Studying the Self," Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13 (2004) 190-193.
• Sargent, J D, M L Beach, A M Adachi-Mejia, J J Gibson, L Titus-Ernstoff, C Carusi, S Swain, T F Heatherton, and M A Dalton, "Exposure to Movie Smoking: Its Relation to Smoking Initiation among U.S. Adolescents," Pediatrics, 116 (2005) 1183-1191.
• Krendl, A C, C N Macrae, W M Kelley, and T F Heatherton, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An fMRI Investigation of the Functional Anatomic Correlates of Stigma," Social Neuroscience, 1 (2006) 5-15.
• Heatherton, T F, C L Wyland, C N Macrae, K E Demos, B T Denny, and W M Kelley, "Medial Prefrontal Activity Differentiates Self from Close Others," Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1 (2006) 18-25.
• Somerville, L H, T F Heatherton, and W M Kelley, "Disambiguating Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function: Differential Response to Experiences of Expectancy Violation and Social Rejection," Nature Neuroscience, 9 (2006) 1007-1008.

Current Projects

"Effects of Social Context on the Neural Correlates of Cue Reactivity;" "Neural Correlates of Social Rejection and Social Memory;" "Medial Prefrontal Activity and Self-Referential Processing"