
Chad R. Mortensen
My interests are in social influence, evolutionary psychology, self-control, and functional biases in perception and behavior. Research I have conducted in these areas has examined psychological phenomena related to fundamental goal activation, memory, attention, self-perceptions, behavioral approach/avoidance movements, self-control depletion, normative influence, and biases in visual perceptions.
Primary Interests:
- Evolution and Genetics
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Organizational Behavior
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Ackerman, J. M., Becker, D. V., Mortensen, C. R., Sasaki, T., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2009). A pox on the mind: Disjunction of attention and memory in the processing of physical disfigurement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 478-485.
- Becker, D. V., Anderson, U. S., Mortensen, C. R., Neufeld, S. L., & Neel, R. (2011). The face in the crowd effect unconfounded: Happy faces, not angry faces, are more efficiently detected in single- and multiple-target visual search tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 637-659.
- Becker, D. V., Mortensen, C. R., Ackerman, J. M., Shapiro, J. R., Anderson, U. S., Sasaki, T., Maner, J. K., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2011). Signal detection on the battlefield: Priming self-protection vs. revenge-mindedness differentially modulates the detection of enemies and allies. Public Library of Science: ONE.
- Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N. J., Mortensen, C. R., Cialdini, R. B., & Kenrick, D. T. (2006). Going along versus going alone: When fundamental motives facilitate strategic (non)conformity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 281-294.
- Griskevicius, V., Goldstein, N. J., Mortensen, C. R., Sundie, J. M., Cialdini, R. B., & Kenrick, D. T. (2009). Fear and loving in Las Vegas: Evolution, emotion, and persuasion. Journal of Marketing Research, 46, 384-395.
- Jacobson, R. P., Mortensen, C. R., & Cialdini, R. B. (2011). Bodies obliged and unbound: Differentiated response tendencies for injunctive and descriptive social norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 433-448.
- Mortensen, C. R., Becker, D. V., Ackerman, J. M., Neuberg, S. L., & Kenrick, D. T. (2010). Infection breeds reticence: The effects of disease salience on self-perceptions of personality and behavioral avoidance tendencies. Psychological Science, 21, 440-447.
- Mortensen, C. R., & Cialdini, R. B. (2010). Full-cycle social psychology for theory and application. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 53-63.
- Suls, J., Krizan, Z., Chambers, J. R., Mortensen, C. R., Koestner, B., & Bruchmann, K. (2010). Testing four explanations for the better/worse-than-average effect: Single- and multi-item entities as comparison targets and referents. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 113, 62-72.
- White, A. E., Kenrick, D. T., Li, Y. J., Mortensen, C. R., Neuberg, S. L., & Cohen, A. B. (2012). When nasty breeds nice: Threats of violence amplify agreeableness at national, individual, and situational levels. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 622-634.
Other Publications:
- Cialdini, R. B., & Mortensen, C. R. (2008). Social Influence. In S. F. Davis & W. L. Buskist (Eds.), 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook (pp. 123-133). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
- Goldstein, N. J., & Mortensen, C. R. (2012). Social norms: A how-to (and how-not-to) guide. In Kenrick, D. T., Goldstein, N. J., & Braver, S. L. (Eds.) Six Degrees of Social Influence: Science, Application, and the Psychology of Robert Cialdini. New York: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Introductory Psychology
- Organizational Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Statistics and Research Methods for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Chad R. Mortensen
Department of Psychology
Metropolitan State University of Denver
P.O. Box 173362
Denver, Colorado 80217-3362
United States of America
- Phone: (303) 556-3026