Rate My Professor David Armor

David Armor maintains a robust research profile in social psychology, evidenced by over 3,197 citations on ResearchGate across 13 publications. His scholarly contributions address optimistic biases, prediction errors and biases, self-affirmation, self-regulation in different mindsets, counterfactual thinking and regret, mental simulation for coping, positive illusions, and cognitive styles in historical value conflicts. Key publications include "Prescribed Optimism: Is It Right to Be Wrong About the Future?" (Psychological Science, 2008); "Accuracy, Error, and Bias in Predictions for Real Versus Hypothetical Events" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006); "Hope Over Experience: Desirability and the Persistence of Optimism" (2010); "When Self-Affirmations Reduce Defensiveness: Timing Is Key" (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2010); "The Effects of Mindset on Behavior: Self-Regulation in Deliberative and Implemental Frames of Mind" (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2003); "When Predictions Fail: The Dilemma of Unrealistic Optimism" (chapter in Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, 2002); "The Influence of Anticipated Counterfactual Regret on Behavior" (Psychology and Marketing, 2000); "Harnessing the Imagination: Mental Simulation, Self-Regulation, and Coping" (American Psychologist, 1998); "Positive Illusions and Coping with Adversity" (Journal of Personality, 1996); and "The Slavery Debate in Antebellum America: Cognitive Style, Value Conflict, and the Limits of Compromise" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994). In 2013, Armor was honored as Faculty/Staff Honoree by SDSU psychology student Julia Bussberg in the Quest for Best recognition program. His work has significantly impacted studies in psychological judgment, decision-making, and self-regulation.