Rate My Professor David Armor

David Armor, Ph.D., serves as a Lecturer of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University, within the College of Sciences on the San Diego campus. His office is located in LSS 7L at 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, and office hours are available by appointment. He leads the Self and Social Judgment Laboratory at SDSU, supporting student research on social judgment processes.

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.