Dana R. Carney

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Dana R. Carney [1] is an American psychologist. She is associate professor of business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. [2] She is a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, an affiliate of the Department of Psychology and the director of the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. [3]

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Education and research

Carney's field of study is nonverbal communication, [4] [5] power and status, [4] and racial bias and discrimination. [4] She has published over 50 articles on these topics in her 10 years as a faculty member. [6] [4] Prior to serving on the faculty at UC Berkeley she was an assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Previous to Columbia she spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in the Psychology Department working with Mahzarin Banaji, [7] Wendy Berry Mendes, and Moshe Bar. She received her PhD in experimental psychology from Northeastern University working with Judith A. Hall and C. Randall Colvin. She also received a master's degree at California State University, Fullerton working with Jinni A. Harrigan and Ronald E. Riggio and a B.A. from the University of San Francisco working with Maureen O'Sullivan. [6]

Power poses

Carney is the primary author of the power pose phenomenon popularized by Amy Cuddy. The idea of power posing builds on a paper Carney published in 2005 called "Beliefs about the nonverbal expression of social power" and a finding called the facial feedback hypothesis (which has come under some scrutiny for possibly being a false positive finding; however a recent paper suggests the facial feedback hypothesis may be a true phenomenon after all). [8] After many failed replications of Carney's power pose work, Carney posted a note on her personal website explaining that she no longer believed in the effects of power posing on feelings, hormones, and risk-taking behavior. This "position on power poses" [9] note contributed to the discussion of replicability in psychological science by Carney being among a first recent batch of scientists publicly disclosing they did not, after failed replications, have faith in their own research. Carney was applauded for her willingness to disclose her doubts. [10] [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dana R. Carney's Research Webpage at UC Berkeley".
  2. ↑ "UC Berkeley website".
  3. ↑ "Dana Carney, IPSR Director".
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Google Scholar".
  5. ↑ Cloud, John (November 29, 2010). "Strike a Pose". Time .
  6. 1 2 "CV".
  7. ↑ "Carney on Banaji's Web Page".
  8. ↑ Noah, T.; Schul, Y.; Mayo, R. (2018). "Facial Feedback Hypothesis May be True After All". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . 114 (5): 657–664. doi:10.1037/pspa0000121. PMID   29672101. S2CID   4985655.
  9. ↑ "Power Pose Position" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Loss of Confidence Project".
  11. ↑ "Psych Brief News". 2016-09-27.
  12. ↑ "Replicability of Power Poses".
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