Nalini Ambady

Lab Director
Professor of Psychology

Tufts University
Psychology Department
490 Boston Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
617.627.4372

Curriculum Vitae

About me
Nalini Ambady, Professor and Neubauer Faculty Fellow at Tufts University, received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and taught at Holy Cross College and Harvard University, where she was the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Science, before moving to Tufts. Her research interests focus on the accuracy of social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, how personal and social identities affect cognition and performance, nonverbal and cross-cultural communication. She examines these phenomena from multiple perspectives ranging from the biological to the sociocultural. She is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1999), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Behavioral Science Research Award (1993), and the APA Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics) Dissertation Award (1994). She was also selected to deliver the Frederick Howell Lewis Distinguished Lecture, American Psychological Association Convention (2004).

Honors & Awards

• Excellence in Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Council, Harvard University, 2000

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 1998

• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 1998

• American Association for the Advancement of Science Behavioral Science Research Prize, 1993 (with Robert Rosenthal)

• American Psychological Association Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics) Dissertation Award, 1994