Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Person Perception
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Todd Nelson
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Dr. Nelson has research interests in the following areas:
Stereotyping and Prejudice: Ageism; Cognitive processes associated with use of stereotypes in impression formation; role of affect in guiding attitudes about stereotyped others; affective outcomes of using cognitive heuristics in intergroup interaction.
Counterfactual Thinking: Affective and cognitive antecedents to upward and downward additive and subtractive counterfactuals; consequences of counterfactual thought on judgments and decision making; effects of counterfactual thought on the utilization of stereotypes in social judgments.
Attitudes: Impact of affective and cognitive attitude components on attitude change; formation and representation of attitude components in memory; measurement of peripheral cue representation; direct and indirect means of attitude formation and change.
Prosocial Behavior: Egoistic vs. altruistic motives for prosocial behavior; evidence for a unitary or multifaceted ultimate goal in prosocial behavior; cognitive and affective processes in empathy-motivated helping behavior; effects of implicit attitudes on prosocial behavior.
Self-Regulation: Organization of goal-directed behavior; action maintenance; cognitive arousal in discrepancies between real-ideal behavioral states; effects of affective states on goal-pursuit and disengagement; cognitive self-efficacy appraisal processes at decisional junctures in goal-directed behavior.
Books:
- Nelson, T. D. (2006). The psychology of prejudice (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
- Nelson, T. D. (Ed.). (2009). Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. New York: Psychology Press.
- Nelson, T. D. (Ed.). (2002). Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Journal Articles:
- Nelson, T. D. (2005). Ageism: Prejudice against our feared future self. Journal of Social Issues, 61(2), 207-221.
- Nelson, T. D. (1998). A stimulus-response social psychology? American Psychologist, 53(9), 1078.
- Nelson, T. D. (1997). Mood regulation prior to social interaction: Mood maintenance versus Neutralization. Journal of Social Psychology, 137(4), 535-537.
- Nelson, T. D. (1995). The control of consciousness via a neuropsychological feedback loop. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(4), 690-691.
- Nelson, T. D. (1993). The hierarchical organization of behavior: A useful feedback model of self-regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2(4), 121-126.
Todd Nelson
Department of Psychology
California State University--Stanislaus
Turlock, CA 95382
United States
Phone: (209) 667-3442
Fax: (209) 664-7067