Dana Carney

Dana R. Carney is an associate professor at Berkeley Haas and an affiliate of the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. She is also director of the Institute of Personality and Social Psychology (IPSR) and a Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow. Carney studies social behavior, and she is particularly interested in the behavioral expression of prejudice, political affiliation and engagement, generosity, power, and status. Her work often dives deeply into the most micro aspects of social behavior—nonverbal behavior—and much of her work seeks to uncover what it is we actually do with our bodies and faces when we express prejudice, or status, for example. She has been invited to share her research and teaching at academic conferences, universities, and companies all over the world. To Wall Street, she often instructs on topics related to power, status, corruption, and deception. To biotech, pharma, and tech she instructs on topics related to subtle forms of prejudice and discrimination, teamwork, culture, power, and nonverbal communication. At the National Labs, she instructs on teamwork, diversity, and social networks. Prior to Berkeley, Carney was an assistant professor of Management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. She has served as Faculty Director for Women in Technology at Berkeley Executive Education.

Carney teaches undergraduates and MBA and Ph.D. students at Berkeley Haas and in the Psychology Department. She has published over 50 research articles, many of which are highly cited and visible in the media and in popular books. In 2011 she received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award in Social Psychology and in 2010 the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science. Carney received her PhD in social psychology from Northeastern University in 2005 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University until 2008.

Education

• PhD. Northeastern University
  
• M.A. California State University, Fullerton
  
• B.A. University of San Francisco

Expertise and Research Interests

• Nonverbal Behavior
• Predjudice & Discrimination
• Power and Status
• Social Perception
• Automaticity
• Social Behavior and Market Outcomes

Positions Held

At Haas since 2010

• 2018 – present, Director, Institute for Personality and Social Research
• 2014 – present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
  
• 2010 – 2014, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
  
• 2008 – 2010, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
  
• 2005 – 2008, Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  

Visiting Positions

• Norton, M. I., Dunn, E. W., Carney, D. R., & Ariely, D. (in press). The persuasive “power” of stigma. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
• Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Yap, A. J. (2010). Power posing: Brief nonverbal displays cause changes in neuroendocrine levels and risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21,1363–1368.
• Carney, D. R., & Mason, M. F. (2010). Decision making and testosterone: When the ends justify the means. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 668–671.
• Carney, D. R., & Colvin, C. R. (2010). The circumplex structure of affective social behavior.Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 73-80.
• Carney, D. R., Colvin, C. R., & Hall, J. A. (2007). A thin slice perspective on the accuracy of first impressions. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 1054-1072.
• Carney, D. R., Hall, J. A., & Smith LeBeau, L. (2005). Beliefs about the nonverbal expression of social power. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 29, 105-133.

Honors and Awards

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2011-2016
• Columbia University Diversity Initiative. Social interaction in zero-sum strategic games, 2008
• Mind, Brain, and Behavior Postdoctoral Fellowship
• American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award, 2004