Dr. Brandon J Schmeichel

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University (2005)

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 254 Psychology Building
email: schmeichel@tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-2097
Fax: (979) 845-4727

• Self-Control and Ego Depletion
• Emotion and Emotion Regulation
• Ego Defenses
• Choice and Free Will
• Working Memory

I have broad interests in social and personality psychology, particularly the human capacity for self-control. My research examines willpower, choice, memory, and emotion regulation.

1. Schmeichel, B. J., Volokhov, R., & Demaree, H. A. (in press). Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology



2. Vohs, K. D., Baumeister, R. F., Schmeichel, B. J., Twenge, J. M., Tice, D. M., & Nelson, N. M. (2008). Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: A limited resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 883-898.



3. Schmeichel, B. J. (2007). Attention control, memory updating, and emotion regulation temporarily reduce the capacity for executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 241-255.



4. Schmeichel, B. J., & Zell, A. (2007). Trait self-control predicts performance on behavioral tests of self-control. Journal of Personality, 75, 743-756.



5. Gailliot, M. T., Baumeister, R. F., DeWall, C. N., Maner, J. K., Plant, E. A., Brewer, L. E., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2007). Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source: Willpower is more than a metaphor. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 325-336.



6. Gailliot, M. T., Schmeichel, B. J., & Maner, J. K. (2007). Differentiating the effects of self-control and self-esteem on reactions to mortality salience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 894-901.



7. Schmeichel, B. J., Demaree, H. A., Robinson, J. L., & Pu, J. (2006). Ego depletion by response exaggeration. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 95-102.



8. Demaree, H. A., Schmeichel, B. J., Robinson, J. L., Pu, J., Everhart, D. E., & Berntson, G. G. (2006). Up- and down-regulating facial disgust: Affective, vagal, sympathetic, and respiratory consequences. Biological Psychology, 71, 90-99.



9. Gailliot, M. T., Schmeichel, B. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2006). Self-regulatory processes defend against the threat of death: Effects of self-control depletion and trait self-control on thoughts and fears of dying. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 49-62.



10. Schmeichel, B. J., & Martens, A. (2005). Self-affirmation and mortality salience: Affirming values reduces worldview defense and death-thought accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 658-667.



11. Demaree, H. A., Schmeichel, B. J., Robinson, J. L., & Everhart, D. E. (2004). Behavioral, affective, and physiological effects of negative and positive emotional exaggeration. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 1079-1097.



12. Schmeichel, B. J., Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2003). Ego depletion and intelligent performance: Role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 33-46.



13. Vohs, K. D., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2003). Self-regulation and the extended now: Controlling the self alters the subjective experience of time. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 217-230.

Schmeichel, B. J. (2008, July). Ego depletion and cognitive load: What’s the difference? In A. Bertrams (Chair), Self-regulatory strength and ego depletion: A decade later. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Schmeichel, B. J. (2008, May). (Chair). Cognitive control and emotion regulation: Applying “cold” processes to “hot” emotional impulses. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Schmeichel, B. J. (2005, May). Ego depletion reduces working memory capacity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Baumeister, R. F., Dewall, C. N., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2004, April). Creativity, consciousness, and free will: Experimental findings. Paper presented at the 6th "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies, Tempe, AZ.

Schmeichel, B. J., Catanese, K. R., & Ciarocco, N. J. (2003, October). Happiness is lots of self-esteem, right? Symposium conducted at the annual Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Conference, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

APA Dissertation Research Award, 2005
NIH (NIMH) National Research Service Award, Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005
Mensa Award for Excellence in Research, 2004

Undergraduate
PSYC 315: Social Psychology

Graduate
PSYC 621: Seminar in Social Psychology