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Tom Denson

Senior Lecturer

Research Areas: The causes and consequences of anger and aggression in humans; Aggressive personality; Biological correlates of anger and angry rumination; Intergroup aggression; Prejudice.

Academic Career:

B.A. Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
M.A. Research Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, 2002
M.A. Social Psychology, University of Southern California, 2004
Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Southern California, 2007

Selected Publications:

  • Denson, T. F., Spanovic, M., & Miller, N. (in press). Cognitive appraisals and emotions predict cortisol and immune responses: A meta-analysis of acute laboratory social stressors and emotion inductions. Psychological Bulletin.
  • Denson, T.F., Iyer, R., & Lickel, B. (in press). Racist or racism? Taxometric support for a dimensional latent structure of explicit prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
  • Denson, T. F. Angry rumination and the self-regulation of aggression (in press). In J. P. Forgas, R. F. Baumeister, & D. M. Tice (Eds.) The Psychology of Self-Regulation. New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
  • Denson, T. F., White, A. J., & Warburton, W. A. (2009). Trait displaced aggression and psychopathy differentially moderate the effects of acute alcohol intoxication and rumination on triggered displaced aggression. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 673-681.
  • Denson, T. F., Pedersen, W. C., Ronquillo, J., & Nandy, A. S. (2009). The angry brain: Neural correlates of anger, angry rumination, and aggressive personality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 734-744.
  • Denson, T. F., Fabiansson, E. C., Creswell, J. D., & Pedersen, W. C. (2009). Experimental effects of rumination styles on salivary cortisol responses. Motivation and Emotion, 33, 42-48.
  • Stenstrom, D. M., Lickel, B., Denson, T. F., & Miller, N. (2008). The roles of ingroup identification and outgroup entitativity in intergroup retribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1570-1582.
  • Unkelbach, C., Forgas, J. P., & Denson, T. F. (2008). The turban effect: The influence of Muslim headgear and induced affect on aggressive responses in the shooter bias paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1409-1413.
  • Denson, T. F., Aviles, F., Pollock, V., Earleywine, M., Vasquez, E. A., & Miller, N. (2008). The effects of alcohol and the salience of aggressive cues on triggered displaced aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 34, 25-33.
  • Denson, T. F., Marshall, G. N., Schell, G. N., & Jaycox, L. H. (2007). Predictors of posttraumatic distress one year after exposure to community violence: The importance of acute symptom severity. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 683-692.
  • Ronquillo, J., Denson, T., Lickel, B., Lu, Z-L., Nandy, A., & Maddox, K.B. (2007). The effects of skin tone on race -related amygdala activity: An fMRI investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 39-44.
  • Denson, T. F., Pedersen, W. C., & Miller, N. (2006). The Displaced Aggression Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 1032-1051.
  • Lickel, B., Miller, N., Stenstrom, D. M., Denson, T. F., & Schmader, T. (2006). Vicarious retribution: The role of collective blame in intergroup aggression. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 372-390.
  • Denson, T. F., Lickel, B., Curtis, M., Stenstrom, D. M., & Ames, D. (2006). The roles of entitativity and essentiality in judgments of collective responsibility. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9, 43-61.
  • Vasquez, E.A., Denson, T. F., Pedersen, W. C., Stenstrom, D. M., & Miller, N. (2005). The moderating effect of trigger intensity on triggered displaced aggression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 61-67
Recent Research Grants:

  • (2009-2011) Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Regulating anger: Cognitive reappraisal, emotional suppression, and post-event rumination. $170,000. Denson, TF, Grisham, JR, & Moulds, M.
  • (2009-2011) Australian Research Council Discovery Project. Social psychological, personality, and neural processes underlying anger, aggression, and health. $297,000. Denson, TF.
Current Research Students:

Emma Fabiansson

Courses:

PSYC2101: Assessment and Personality
PSYC3121: Social Psychology

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 503A
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-1305
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: T.Denson@unsw.edu.au

Personal Homepage: http://www.psychexperiment.net/denson/index