David Neal is a post doctoral research fellow in Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He also teaches courses in research methods (PSY 185BS) and consumer behavior (PSY 115) within Duke's undergraduate psychology program and directs the DIISP Laboratory -- a new interdisciplinary facility supporting empirical research across the social sciences.

David's research focuses primarily on automaticity and self-regulation. In collaboration with Wendy Wood, he studies the role that people's habits play in minimizing the 'regulatory drain' imposed by everyday life, thus promoting successful self-control. He is also interested in mapping the ways that habits interface with goals and motivational processes.

David also conducts research addressing automatic influences on social judgment and decision making. With Gavan Fitzsimons at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, he has studied the biasing effects of hypothetical jury selection questions on juror decision making. With Tanya Chartrand, also at Fuqua, he is investigating the effects of Botox on facial feedback and affective judgment.