Melissa J. Williams, Ph.D.
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I am an assistant professor of Organization & Management at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. I previously completed postdoctoral training at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD in social psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. My program of research focuses broadly on implicit processes in interpersonal perception. I am interested in the factors that are not generally accessible to conscious awareness, but nonetheless affect thoughts about, and interactions with, other people. I also investigate how these micro-level social interactions play out at a more macro level in the context of interactions between social or cultural groups.
Current projects include an exploration of the effects of verbal and nonverbal interpersonal dominance, the role of individual-level (and group-level) power in determining whether subordinates are evaluated with warmth, hostility, or indifference, and the tendency for power wielded by men and women to be viewed as generalizing (or not) across domains.
**I will be seeking a research assistant for Summer 2011. This is a part-time (flexible), paid position. If you have interest in these research topics and experience conducting research in psychology or organizational behavior, and you plan to be in the Atlanta area this summer, please contact me for more details.** |
