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Nalini Ambady

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According to Wikipedia, Nalini Ambady was an Indian-American social psychologist and a leading expert on nonverbal behavior and interpersonal perception. She was born in Calcutta, India and earned her bachelor’s degree at Lady Shri Ram College for women, Delhi University. She furthered her education by moving to the United States for her master’s degree in psychology, from the College of William and Mary, and later received her PhD in social psychology from Harvard. While completing her research at Harvard, she met her husband Raj Marphatia, who was studying at Harvard Law school.

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Nalini Ambady's Published Works

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Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis. (1992) (1738)
On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysis. (2002) (1736)
Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance (1999) (1346)
Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness. (1993) (946)
Toward a histology of social behavior: Judgmental accuracy from thin slices of the behavioral stream (2000) (728)
MouseTracker: Software for studying real-time mental processing using a computer mouse-tracking method (2010) (576)
Stereotype Susceptibility in Children: Effects of Identity Activation on Quantitative Performance (2001) (563)
The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors. (2005) (519)
A dynamic interactive theory of person construal. (2011) (451)
Effects of Gaze on Amygdala Sensitivity to Anger and Fear Faces (2003) (438)
Surgeons' tone of voice: a clue to malpractice history. (2002) (425)
P300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli (2004) (415)
When familiarity breeds accuracy: cultural exposure and facial emotion recognition. (2003) (397)
On judging and being judged accurately in zero-acquaintance situations. (1995) (383)
Accuracy of judgments of sexual orientation from thin slices of behavior. (1999) (373)
Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation (2010) (369)
Stereotype performance boosts: the impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation. (2002) (294)
On being sad and mistaken: mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments. (2002) (273)
Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition? (2002) (271)
Universals and Cultural Differences in Recognizing Emotions (2003) (260)
Cultural Specificity in Amygdala Response to Fear Faces (2008) (258)
Accurate identification of fear facial expressions predicts prosocial behavior. (2007) (252)
Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms (2008) (251)
The Face of Success (2008) (239)
Deflecting negative self-relevant stereotype activation: The effects of individuation ☆ (2004) (220)
Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception (2011) (216)
Accuracy and awareness in the perception and categorization of male sexual orientation. (2008) (211)
Emotional expressions forecast approach-avoidance behavior (2006) (208)
Physical therapists' nonverbal communication predicts geriatric patients' health outcomes. (2002) (201)
Accuracy and consensus in judgments of trustworthiness from faces: behavioral and neural correlates. (2013) (200)
Cultural neuroscience: Parsing universality and diversity across levels of analysis. (2007) (194)
In Blind Pursuit of Racial Equality? (2010) (193)
Polling the face: prediction and consensus across cultures. (2010) (192)
The 30-Sec Sale: Using Thin-Slice Judgments to Evaluate Sales Effectiveness (2006) (191)
Will a category cue attract you? Motor output reveals dynamic competition across person construal. (2008) (190)
Predicting workplace outcomes from the ability to eavesdrop on feelings. (2002) (183)
Diversity ideologies and intergroup relations: An examination of colorblindness and multiculturalism (2013) (178)
Motions of the Hand Expose the Partial and Parallel Activation of Stereotypes (2009) (173)
More than words: Linguistic and nonlinguistic politeness in two cultures. (1996) (169)
Female sexual orientation is perceived accurately, rapidly, and automatically from the face and its features (2009) (169)
Not so black and white: memory for ambiguous group members. (2009) (166)
“Math is Hard!” The effect of gender priming on women’s attitudes (2006) (164)
Sexual Orientation Perception Involves Gendered Facial Cues (2010) (164)
Effects of situational power on automatic racial prejudice (2003) (162)
Learning (not) to talk about race: when older children underperform in social categorization. (2008) (158)
Affective divergence: automatic responses to others' emotions depend on group membership. (2008) (156)
Race salience and essentialist thinking in racial stereotype development. (2010) (150)
Democrats and Republicans Can Be Differentiated from Their Faces (2010) (147)
The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal Behavior (2009) (144)
On Being Liked on the Web and in the "Real World": Consistency in First Impressions across Personal Webpages and Spontaneous Behavior. (2009) (140)
The science of social vision (2010) (139)
Continuous dynamics in the real-time perception of race (2010) (131)
Dyadic interracial interactions: a meta-analysis. (2012) (130)
The Perils of Pondering: Intuition and Thin Slice Judgments (2010) (129)
Culture shapes a mesolimbic response to signals of dominance and subordination that associates with behavior (2009) (115)
Cross-cultural patterns in emotion recognition: highlighting design and analytical techniques. (2002) (115)
It does not have to be uncomfortable: the role of behavioral scripts in Black-White interracial interactions. (2009) (112)
Emotional intelligence and the recognition of emotion from facial expressions. (2002) (104)
She’s Got the Look: Inferences from Female Chief Executive Officers’ Faces Predict their Success (2009) (102)
Fluid movement and creativity. (2012) (101)
Knowing Who's Boss: fMRI and ERP Investigations of Social Dominance Perception (2008) (100)
The influence of the fear facial expression on prosocial responding (2007) (95)
The neural origins of superficial and individuated judgments about ingroup and outgroup members (2009) (94)
Psychology's role in mathematics and science education. (2009) (92)
An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be (2011) (91)
The physical burdens of secrecy. (2012) (87)
Our future scientists: A review of stereotype threat in girls from early elementary school to middle school (2014) (86)
The neural basis of categorical face perception: graded representations of face gender in fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices. (2010) (86)
Identity Adaptiveness: Affect Across Multiple Identities (1999) (86)
Culture in social neuroscience: A review (2013) (86)
Multiracial faces: How categorization affects memory at the boundaries of race. (2009) (84)
Culture and the Brain (2009) (83)
Who's in Charge? Effects of Situational Roles on Automatic Gender Bias (2001) (79)
Us and them: Memory advantages in perceptually ambiguous groups (2007) (76)
Laterality of Facial Expressions of Emotion: Universal and Culture-Specific Influences (2004) (74)
Personality impressions from identity claims on Facebook. (2012) (73)
Ambiguous Group Membership Is Extracted Automatically From Faces (2009) (73)
Priming Race in Biracial Observers Affects Visual Search for Black and White Faces (2006) (71)
Tough and Tender (2010) (69)
Cultural Similarity's Consequences (2003) (69)
The Glimpsed World: Unintended Communication and Unintended Perception (2005) (66)
Voting behavior is reflected in amygdala response across cultures. (2010) (66)
Misery Loves Company (2011) (66)
Personality in Perspective: Judgmental Consistency across Orientations of the Face (2009) (65)
A memory advantage for untrustworthy faces (2012) (65)
Older adults' decoding of emotions: role of dynamic versus static cues and age-related cognitive decline. (2010) (65)
Perceptions of Dominance following Glimpses of Faces and Bodies (2012) (64)
Face and fortune: Inferences of personality from Managing Partners' faces predict their law firms' financial success (2011) (64)
When Two Become One: Temporally Dynamic Integration of the Face and Voice (2011) (64)
Judgments of Power From College Yearbook Photos and Later Career Success (2011) (63)
Mental representations of social status (2004) (62)
Simulating sensorimotor metaphors: Novel metaphors influence sensory judgments (2014) (60)
Self-Esteem, Self-Prediction, and Living up to Commitments (1993) (60)
Amygdala responses to averted vs direct gaze fear vary as a function of presentation speed. (2012) (60)
Mating Interest Improves Women’s Accuracy in Judging Male Sexual Orientation (2011) (60)
Compensatory expressive behavior for facial paralysis: adaptation to congenital or acquired disability. (2012) (57)
Meta-Lay Theories of Scientific Potential Drive Underrepresented Students’ Sense of Belonging to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) (2018) (56)
Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas. (2010) (56)
Red enhances the processing of facial expressions of anger. (2013) (55)
The face-sensitive N170 encodes social category information (2010) (54)
Places and faces: Geographic environment influences the ingroup memory advantage. (2010) (54)
When the half affects the whole: Priming identity for biracial individuals in social interactions (2013) (53)
Development and validation of the Alcohol Identity Implicit Associations Test (AI-IAT). (2011) (52)
Hand movements reveal the time-course of shape and pigmentation processing in face categorization (2011) (52)
First Impressions of the Face: Predicting Success (2010) (51)
EMbOdiEd iMPrESSiON fOrMaTiON: SOCial JudgMENTS aNd MOTOr CuES TO aPPrOaCh aNd avOidaNCE (2012) (50)
Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children's memory for racially ambiguous faces. (2014) (50)
Thin-slice judgments as a measure of interpersonal sensitivity. (2001) (50)
On the Perception of Religious Group Membership from Faces (2010) (49)
Monoracial and biracial children: effects of racial identity saliency on social learning and social preferences. (2014) (48)
Culture, gaze and the neural processing of fear expressions. (2010) (47)
How “It Gets Better” (2014) (47)
On How Things Are Said (2003) (47)
Team Emotion Recognition Accuracy and Team Performance (2007) (46)
Influences of Culture and Visual Context on Real-Time Social Categorization. (2013) (45)
Cognition from on high and down low: Verticality and construal level. (2015) (45)
The real-time link between person perception and action: Brain potential evidence for dynamic continuity (2011) (45)
People perception: Social vision of groups and consequences for organizing and interacting ☆ (2014) (42)
Hemifacial differences in the in‐group advantage in emotion recognition (2004) (40)
Thin-slice judgments in the clinical context. (2014) (40)
The role of non‐verbal behaviour in racial disparities in health care: implications and solutions (2013) (40)
Investigating the Early Stages of Person Perception: The Asymmetry of Social Categorization by Sex vs. Age (2014) (39)
Power Heightens Sensitivity to Unfairness Against the Self (2015) (38)
On the Correspondence Between Physiological and Nonverbal Responses: Nonverbal Behavior Accompanying Challenge and Threat (2009) (38)
Face to (face)book: the two faces of social behavior? (2013) (38)
What’s in a Smile? Cultural Differences in the Effects of Smiling on Judgments of Trustworthiness (2010) (37)
Found in Translation (2011) (37)
Unspoken cultural influence: exposure to and influence of nonverbal bias. (2009) (37)
Communicating Without the Face: Holistic Perception of Emotions of People With Facial Paralysis (2014) (37)
Will a Category Cue Affect You? Category Cues, Positive Stereotypes and Reviewer Recall for Applicants (2000) (36)
Trusting outgroup, but not ingroup members, requires control: neural and behavioral evidence (2016) (35)
Cracking the Nonverbal Code (2005) (34)
Subtle perceptions of male sexual orientation influence occupational opportunities. (2016) (34)
P 300 as an index of attention to self-relevant stimuli q (2004) (32)
The neural basis of contextual influences on face categorization. (2015) (32)
How does the brain regulate negative bias to stigma? (2012) (31)
Separated by a Common Language (2007) (31)
Relieving the Burdens of Secrecy (2014) (30)
Motivation alters impression formation and related neural systems (2016) (30)
Contingent Negative Variation to Emotional In- and Out-Group Stimuli Differentiates High- and Low-Prejudiced Individuals (2004) (29)
Quality of Professional Players’ Poker Hands Is Perceived Accurately From Arm Motions (2013) (28)
Face value: Amygdala response reflects the validity of first impressions (2011) (27)
Priming a natural or human-made environment directs attention to context-congruent threatening stimuli (2012) (27)
Gender moderates the relationship between emotion and perceived gaze. (2011) (27)
The cultural neuroscience of person perception. (2009) (26)
Behavioral Stability Across Time and Situations: Nonverbal Versus Verbal Consistency (2010) (26)
On Being Consistent: The Role of Verbal–Nonverbal Consistency in First Impressions (2010) (24)
Does aging impair first impression accuracy? Differentiating emotion recognition from complex social inferences. (2014) (23)
The effects of stereotypes and observer pressure on athletic performance. (2012) (23)
Ambiguity and social perception. (2010) (23)
On the interactive influence of facial appearance and explicit knowledge in social categorization (2014) (23)
the PoWeR oF identitY to MotiVate Face MeMoRY in BiRaciaL indiVidUaLS (2013) (23)
Does context matter in evaluations of stigmatized individuals? An fMRI study. (2013) (23)
The social-sensory interface: category interactions in person perception (2012) (23)
Cross-cultural impressions of leaders’ faces: Consensus and predictive validity (2011) (23)
Fluid Movement and Fluid Social Cognition (2014) (22)
FinGeR in FLiGht ReVeaLS PaRaLLeL cateGoRiZation acRoSS MULtiPLe SociaL diMenSionS (2013) (22)
Ratings of Essentialism for Eight Religious Identities (2011) (21)
Saying It Like It Isn't: Mixed Messages From Men and Women in the Workplace1 (2002) (20)
Chapter 4 Team Emotion Recognition Accuracy and Team Performance (2007) (20)
Identical applicant but different outcomes: The impact of gender versus race salience in hiring (2019) (20)
Nonverbal communication and psychology: Past and future (1999) (19)
When Roles Reverse: Stigma, Status, and Self‐Evaluation1 (2001) (19)
Multiple Messages: Facial Recognition Advantage for Compound Expressions (2000) (19)
The dynamic interactive model of person construal: Coordinating sensory and social processes (2014) (19)
The dissociable effects of stereotype threat on older adults' memory encoding and retrieval. (2015) (18)
Age-related decline in executive function predicts better advice-giving in uncomfortable social contexts (2010) (16)
Getting a word in group-wise: Effects of racial diversity on gender dynamics (2012) (14)
Emotion contagion moderates the relationship between emotionally-negative families and abnormal eating behavior. (2011) (13)
Methods for the Study of Nonverbal Communication (2006) (13)
Proprioception and Person Perception (2012) (11)
Non-conscious routes to building culture: Nonverbal components of socialization (2008) (11)
On Perceiving Facial Expressions: the Role of Culture and Context (2011) (11)
Group-based discrimination in judgments of moral purity-related behaviors: experimental and archival evidence. (2014) (11)
Race, Power, and Reflexive Gaze Following (2017) (11)
Cross-Cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes and Its Consequences for International Relations (2015) (11)
Behavior The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal (10)
Differentially tuned responses to restricted versus prolonged awareness of threat: A preliminary fMRI investigation (2011) (9)
Brain, Behavior, and Culture: Insights from Cognition, Perception, and Emotion (2011) (9)
10.1177/0022022104273658 JOURNAL Molinsky et OF al. / CROSS-CULTURAL CRACKING THE NONVERBAL PSYCHOLOGY CODE CRACKING THE NONVERBAL CODE Intercultural Competence and Gesture Recognition Across Cultures (8)
Priming race in biracial observers affects visual search for different race faces (2006) (8)
The Mind in the World: Culture and the Brain (2011) (8)
Introduction: Vision Going Social (2010) (7)
Chapter 5 Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination The Effect of Group-based Expectations on Moral Functioning (2004) (6)
Judging Social Behavior Using “Thin Slices” (1997) (5)
Race and Emotion : Insights from a Social Neuroscience Perspective (2007) (5)
Predicting fluctuations in widespread interest: memory decay and goal-related memory accessibility in internet search trends. (2014) (5)
Vision going social (2010) (5)
Alcohol Identity Implicit Associations Test (2012) (4)
Perceptions of variability in facial emotion influence beliefs about the stability of psychological characteristics. (2016) (4)
Aggressive Acts Increase Commitment to New Groups (2014) (4)
Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination (2004) (4)
Culture, Brain, and Behavior (2012) (3)
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Politeness in Two Cultures (1996) (3)
The effect of racial primes on the test performance of African-American and European-American children (2015) (3)
First impressions: Peeking at the neural correlates (2008) (3)
t he effect of racial primes on the test performance of a frican- a merican and e uropean- a merican children L'effet de l'amorçage de l'origine ethnique sur les performances d'enfants américains d'origine africaine ou européenne (2014) (2)
Us versus Them: The Social Neuroscience of Perceiving Out-groups (2011) (2)
Nonverbal Expressions of Status and System Legitimacy (2013) (2)
16 Cultural Dialects I \-' Non verbal Behavior and Person PercePtion (1)
ambady and freeman : the cultural neuroscience of human perception 777 67 The Cultural Neuroscience of Human Perception (2015) (1)
BRIEF REPORT The Physical Burdens of Secrecy (2012) (1)
Content-free voice analysis of mothers talking about their failure-to-thrive children* (1992) (1)
About Americans and Australians Separated by a Common Language : Nonverbal Accents and Cultural Stereotypes (2007) (0)
Thanks to our Reviewers (2012) (0)
BRIEF REPORT Fluid Movement and Creativity (2012) (0)
Risky College Drinking Practices Measure (2012) (0)
Implicit Causality, Gender and Language (1996) (0)
Volume 6, 2011, List of Contents (2012) (0)
Mind reading in Japan and the US: An intracultural advantage: (514412014-040) (2007) (0)
AmbiguousGroupMembershipIs Extracted Automatically From (2009) (0)
Using Nonverbal Representations of Behavior: (2002) (0)
Acknowledgment (1997) (0)
The Effects of Biracial Priming on Biracial Children: An Examination of Learning and Social Preferences (2013) (0)
First impressions : H o w accurate are they ? Judging Social Behavior Using " Thin Slices " (2007) (0)
Multiracial children: How identity priming affects learning (2011) (0)
Acknowledgment (2009) (0)
Monoethnic and Multiethnic Children: How Ethnic Identity Saliency Affects Learning Preferences (2013) (0)
status cues shape race perception. (2011) (0)
Using Nonverbal Representations of network (2007) (0)
FlashReport In fl uences of culture and visual context on real-time social categorization (2012) (0)
Racial Inequalities Measure (2014) (0)
First Impressions of the Face : Predicting Success Nicholas Rule and (2010) (0)
Fast track report On the interactive in fl uence of facial appearance and explicit knowledge in social categorization (2014) (0)
Facebook Use Scale (2016) (0)
Priming identity in biracial observers affects speed of visual search for different race faces (2010) (0)
BRIEF REPORT Older Adults' Decoding of Emotions: Role of Dynamic Versus Static Cues and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (2010) (0)

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