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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 |
| 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 research background has been focused on the area of Judgment and Decision Making (JDM). My current research interests also involve decision making and can be best described within several areas. First, I am working to integrate prior theoretical work to develop a more concise view of the decision making process, including automatic and conscious processing. Second, I am interested in understanding feelings of regret that people have after making decisions. I also maintain an interest in understanding what hemispheric processing tells us about the decision making process. |
| Representative Publications |
| McElroy, T., & Stroh, N. (In press). Making Estimates and Sensitivity to Anchors: Exploring the Role of Hemispheric Processing. Laterality |
| Dickinson, D. L., & McElroy, T. (In press). Circadian effects on strategic reasoning. Experimental Economics. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T., McCormick, M., Stroh, N. & Seta, J.J. (In press). An Investigation of Measurement Validity for a Hemispheric Activation Scale. Laterality. |
| McElroy, T., McElroy, J. & Conrad, J. (2010). American views on the Irish American: Implications from the Irish stereotype. Irish Journal of Psychology, 31, 43-52. [PDF Format] |
Dickinson, D. L., & McElroy, T. (2010). Rationality around the clock. Sleep and time-of-day effects on guessing game responses. Economics Letters, 108, 245-248. |
| Corbin, J., McElroy, T., & Black, C. (2010). Memory reflected in our decisions: Higher working memory capacity predicts greater bias in risky choice. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 110-115. [PDF Format] |
| McElroy, T., & Dickinson, D. L. (2010). Thoughtful Days and Valenced Nights: How Much Will You Think About the Problem? Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 516-523. [PDF Format] |
| Seta, J. J., McCormick, M., Gallagher, P., McElroy, T. & Seta, C. E. (2010). Voice Frequency Impacts Hemispheric Processing of Attribute Frames. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1089-1092. |
| McElroy, T., & Corbin, J. (2010) Affective Imposition Influences Risky-Choice: Handedness points to the hemispheres. Laterality, 15, 426-438. |
| Dickinson, D. L., & McElroy, T. (2010). Paper Airplane Producers: Morning Types vs. Evening Types. Annals of Improbable Research, 16, 10-12. |
| 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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