Nalini Ambady
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
490 Boston Avenue, 2nd Floor
Medford, Massachusetts 02155
U.S.A.
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Nalini Ambady received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University in 1991. After teaching at Holy Cross College, she joined the faculty at Harvard in 1994. In 2004, she joined the psychology department at Tufts University. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, how personal and social identities affect cognition and performance, dyadic interactions (especially those involving status differentiated dyads), and nonverbal communication. She is particularly interested in applying innovative and integrative methods to examine these phenomena from multiple perspectives ranging from the biological to the sociocultural.
In a pioneering study on stigma, Ambady reminded female Asian students about their gender or their ethnicity prior to taking a math test. There are prevailing social stereotypes that suggest women are not good at math and that Asians are good at math. Her study showed that subtly cuing students' gender or ethnic identities affects their performance. Those whose ethnic identity was cued performed better on the test than the students whose gender identity was cued.
 Journal Articles:
 Ambady, N., & Gray, H. M. (2002). On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 83(4), 947-961.
- Ambady, N., Paik, S. K., Steele, J., Owen-Smith, A., & Mitchell J. P. (2004). Deflecting negative self-relevant stereotype activation: The effects of individualization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 401-408.
- Ambady, N., Shih, M., Kim, A., & Pittinsky, T. L. (2001). Stereotype susceptibility in children: Effects of identity activation on quantitative performance. Psychological Science, 12(5), 385-390.
- Chiao, J. Y., Bordeaux, A. R., & Ambady, N. (2004). Mental representation of social status. Cognition, 93, 49-57.
- Chiao, J. Y., Heck, H. E., Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2006). Priming racial identity in biracial observers affects visual search for different race faces. Psychological Science, 17, 388-393.
- Chiu, P., Ambady, N., & Deldin, P. (2004). Contingent negative variation in response to emotional in- and out-group stimuli differentiates high- and low- prejudiced individuals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1830-1839.
- Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2003). Universals and cultural differences in recognizing emotions of a different cultural group. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 12(5), 159-164.
- Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2003). When familiarity breeds accuracy: Cultural exposure and facial emotion recognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(2), 276-290.
- Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2002). On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 203-235.
- Elfenbein, H. A., Mandal, M., Ambady, N., Harizuka, S., & Kumar, S. (2004). Hemifacial differences in the in-group advantage in emotion recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 613-629.
- Gray, H. M., Ambady, N., Lowenthal, W. T., & Deldin, P. (2004). P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(2), 216-224.
- LaPlante, D., & Ambady, N. (2004). On how things are said: Voice tone, voice intensity, verbal content, and perceptions of politeness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 22, 434-441.
- Marsh, A. A., Ambady, N., & Kleck, R. E. (2005). The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors. Emotion, 5(1), 119-124.
- Shih, M., Ambady, N., Richeson, J. A., Fujita, K., & Gray, H. M. (2002). Stereotype performance boosts: The impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 83(3), 638-647.
Other Publications:
- Ambady, N., Bernieri, F. J., & Richeson, J. A. (2000). Toward a histology of social behavior: Judgmental accuracy from thin slices of the behavioral stream. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 32, 201-271.
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