Nalini Ambady
 

Graduate student

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

About me
I am a third year graduate student working with Nalini Ambady in the Interpersonal Perception and Communication Lab in the Psychology Department of Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford I received an M.S. in psychology from Tufts University, where I am a doctoral candidate, and a B.A. in psychology with a minor in neuroscience from Syracuse University. My research examines how social perception and cognition is grounded in bodily states, and conversely the role our body plays in perceiving and understanding others. More generally, I am interested in environmental influences on behavior, face and emotion perception, and how social judgments are made in the active perceiver.

In press and 2012

 

Slepian, M.L., & Ambady, N. (in press). Fluid movement and creativity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

 

Slepian, M.L., Masicampo, E.J., Toosi, N.R., & Ambady, N. (in press). The physical burdens of secrecy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

 

Slepian, M.L., Young, S.G., Rule, N.O., Weisbuch, M., & Ambady, N. (2012). Embodied impression formation: Social judgments and motor cues to approach and avoidance. Social Cognition, 30, 232-240.

 

2011

 

Rule, N.O., Rosen, K.S., Slepian, M.L., & Ambady, N. (2011). Mating interest improves women's accuracy in judging male sexual orientation. Psychological Science, 22, 881-886.

 

Slepian, M.L., Weisbuch, M., Rule, N.O., & Ambady, N. (2011). Tough and tender: Embodied categorization of gender. Psychological Science, 22, 26-28.

 

Slepian, M.L., Weisbuch, M., Adams, R.B., Jr., & Ambady, N. (2011). Gender moderates the relationship between emotion and perceived gaze. Emotion, 11, 1439-1444.

 

Weisbuch, M., Ambady, N., Slepian, M.L., & Jimerson, D.C. (2011). Emotion contagion moderates the relationship between emotionally-negative families and abnormal eating behavior. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 44, 716-720.

 

2010

 

Rutchick, A.M., Slepian, M. L., & Ferris, B. (2010). The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 704-708.

 

Slepian, M.L., Weisbuch, M., Rutchick, A.M., Newman, L.S., & Ambady, N. (2010). Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 696-700.

 

Weisbuch, M., Slepian, M.L., Clarke, A., Ambady, N., & Veenstra-Vander Weele, J. (2010). Behavioral stability across time and situations: Nonverbal versus verbal consistency. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 34, 43-56.