Nalini Ambady
| Nalini Ambady | |
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| Born |
March 20, 1959 Calcutta, India |
| Died | October 28, 2013 (aged 54) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions |
Stanford University Tufts University Harvard University |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University College of William and Mary |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Rosenthal |
| Known for | thin slice judgments |
| Notable awards | AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research |
Nalini Ambady (March 20, 1959 – October 28, 2013) was a social psychologist and a leading expert on nonverbal behavior and interpersonal perception. She was a Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Psychology.
A native of the state of Kerala, India, Ambady did her schooling at the Lawrence School, Lovedale, and joined college at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. Subsequently, she moved to the United States for higher education, completing her M.A. in Psychology from The College of William and Mary, Virginia. She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University in 1991 under the guidance of Robert Rosenthal, with whom she researched thin slice judgments.
She held academic positions at Harvard University, Cambridge and the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts before being appointed as Professor in the Department of Psychology at Tufts University in 2004. She subsequently moved to Stanford University, California in 2011. She was the first Indian-American woman to teach psychology at Harvard, Tufts, and Stanford.
Ambady specialized in the study of intuition. Her research found that humans perceive nonverbal cues in response to novel people or situations, and that the information gleaned from an instant impression is often as powerful as information gleaned by getting to know a situation or person over a longer period of time. She and Robert Rosenthal coined the term "thin slices" to refer to such instantaneous non-verbal cues. Later, author Malcolm Gladwell referred extensively to Ambady's work in his popular book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
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