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Dana R. Carney

Dana R. Carney

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University of California, Berkeley · Management of Organizations

Active 2001–2026

h-index30
Citations6.2k
Papers687 last 5y
Funding$400k

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About

Dana R. Carney is a professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, holding the George Quist Chair in Business Administration. She is also an affiliate of the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and serves as the director of the Institute for Personality and Social Research. Her research primarily focuses on social behavior, with particular interest in the behavioral expression of prejudice, political affiliation and engagement, generosity, power, and status. She investigates these topics through the lens of nonverbal behavior, exploring what individuals do with their bodies and faces when expressing prejudice or status. Carney's work aims to uncover the micro aspects of social behavior and has been widely recognized and shared at academic conferences, universities, and companies globally. She has instructed on topics related to power, status, deception, prejudice, discrimination, teamwork, and culture across various sectors including Wall Street, biotech, pharma, and national laboratories. Prior to her tenure at Berkeley, she was an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER award and the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science, and has published over 50 research articles that are highly cited and featured in media and popular books.

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Business
  • Marketing
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management

Selected publications

  • Dominant, open nonverbal displays are attractive at zero-acquaintance

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016-03-28 · 65 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    Across two field studies of romantic attraction, we demonstrate that postural expansiveness makes humans more romantically appealing. In a field study (n = 144 speed-dates), we coded nonverbal behaviors associated with liking, love, and dominance. Postural expansiveness-expanding the body in physical space-was most predictive of attraction, with each one-unit increase in coded behavior from the video recordings nearly doubling a person's odds of getting a "yes" response from one's speed-dating p…

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  • CRSP special issue on power poses: what was the point and what did we learn?

    Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology · 2017-01-02 · 51 citations

    articleOpen accessSenior author

    The possibility that holding an expansive nonverbal display for two minutes could affect a person’s behavioral, psychological, and physiological states was a provocative idea when first proposed (C...

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  • Can Ordinary People Detect Deception After All?

    Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2016-06-26 · 41 citations

    reviewSenior author
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  • Power poses – where do we stand?

    Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology · 2017-01-02 · 38 citations

    articleOpen access

    As editors, reviewers, and authors, we are very pleased with the output of this Special Issue. We received a robust number of interesting and diverse submissions, and we were very lucky to convince...

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  • Accuracy of Judging Affect and Accuracy of Judging Personality: How and When Are They Related?

    Journal of Personality · 2016-05-30 · 37 citations

    article

    OBJECTIVES: The present research is concerned with the relation between accuracy in judging targets' affective states and accuracy in judging the same targets' personality traits. In two studies, we test the link between these two types of accuracy with the prediction that accuracy of judging traits and of judging states will be associated when fundamental affective qualities are shared. METHOD: In Study 1, affective states and personality traits of 29 targets were rated by 124 judges whose indi…

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Frequent coauthors

  • Mahzarin R. Banaji

    Harvard University

    18 shared

  • Nancy Krieger

    13 shared

  • Pamela D. Waterman

    Harvard University

    12 shared

  • Leanne ten Brinke

    University of British Columbia

    12 shared

  • Анна Кошелева

    Harvard University

    12 shared

  • Judith A. Hall

    12 shared

  • Amy J. C. Cuddy

    Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

    10 shared

  • Katie Lancaster

    9 shared

Education

  • Ph.D., Business Administration

    University of California, Berkeley

    2004

  • M.A., Psychology

    University of California, Berkeley

    1999

  • B.A., Psychology

    University of California, Los Angeles

    1996

Awards & honors

  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellowship, University of C…
  • Schwabacher Fellowship, Haas School of Business (2014 – 2016…
  • Hellman Faculty Fellow (2013 – 2014)
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2011 – 2016)
  • American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Awa…

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