Daniel N. McIntosh
Professor, Affect/Social and DCN

I study emotions and coping, using survey, laboratory, and psychophysiological methods and typical and clinical (e.g., people with autism, depression, Williams syndrome) populations to understand phenomena in these domains.

In my coping research, I study how social and cognitive resources influence emotional adjustment, broadly defined. I am particularly interested in responses to traumatic events, uncontrollability, or high levels of stress, and the role of religion.

In my emotions research, I examine basic interpersonal processes in emotion. Specifically, I focus on mimicry, facial feedback, emotion perception processes, and empathy. I examine these processes in typical populations, and evaluate the functional consequences of deficits in such processes by studying atypical populations as well (e.g., people with autism, conduct disorder, Williams syndrome, sensory processing disorder).

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses on social psychology, emotion, and research methods. I am also a departmental advisor for undergraduates. For more information, you can click on the link to my website or the Emotion and Coping Lab website on the right.

Representative Publications:

Ladd, K. L., & McIntosh, D. N. (in press). Meaning, God, and prayer: Physical and metaphysical aspects of social support. Mental Health, Religion and Culture.

Reed, C. L., & McIntosh, D. N. (in press). The social dance: On-line body perception in the context of others. In R. L. Klatzky, M. Behrmann & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Embodiment, ego-space, and action. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Moody, E. J., McIntosh, D. N., Mann, L. J., & Weisser, K. R. (2007). More than mere mimicry? The influence of emotion on rapid facial reactions to faces. Emotion, 7, 447-457.

Rhoades, G. K., McIntosh, D. N., Wadsworth, M. E., Ahlkvist, J. A., Burwell, R. A., Gudmundsen, G. R., Raviv, T., & Rea, J. G. (2007). Forgiving the September 11th terrorists: Associations with coping, distress, and religion. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 20, 109-128.

McIntosh, D. N. (2006). Spontaneous facial mimicry, liking and emotional contagion. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 37, 31-42.

McIntosh, D. N., Reichmann-Decker, A., Winkielman, P., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2006). When the social mirror breaks: Deficits in automatic, but not voluntary mimicry of emotional facial expressions in autism. Developmental Science, 9, 295-302.

McIntosh, D. N., Sedek, G., Fojas, S., Brzezicka-Rotkiewicz, A., & Kofta, M. (2005). Cognitive performance after preexposure to uncontrollability and in a depressive state: Going with a simpler "Plan B." In R. W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. von Hecker, & D. N. McIntosh (Eds.), Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology (pp. 219-246). NY: Cambridge University Press.

Hawkins, N. A., McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2004). Early responses to school violence: A qualitative analysis of students' and parents' immediate reactions to the shootings at Columbine High School. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 4, 197-223.

Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2002). Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11. Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 1235-1244.

McIntosh, D. N. (1996). Facial feedback hypotheses: Evidence, implications, and directions. Motivation and Emotion, 20, 121-147.

McIntosh, D. N. (1995). Religion as schema, with implications for the relation between religion and coping. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 5, 1-16.

McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Wortman, C. B. (1993). Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: Coping with the loss of a child. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 812-821.

Daniel N. McIntosh
Ph.D. 1992,
University of Michigan

Professor, Affect/Social and DCN
office: Frontier Hall,
Rm. 341
phone: 303.871.3712
e-mail: Daniel.McIntosh@du.edu
website

Director
Emotion and Coping Lab

Faculty Member
Stress Research Network