What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Law
- Cognition
Nalini Ambady spends much of her time researching Social psychology, Nonverbal communication, Social perception, Social cognition and Face perception.
Her Social psychology study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Impression formation, Ethnic group and Perception.
The various areas that Nalini Ambady examines in her Nonverbal communication study include Interpersonal communication, Emotion work, Sexual orientation, CLIPS and Cross-cultural studies.
Her Social perception research includes elements of Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Interpersonal relationship and Affect.
Cognition covers Nalini Ambady research in Social cognition.
Her study focuses on the intersection of Face perception and fields such as Facial expression with connections in the field of Anger, Fear processing in the brain and Amygdala.
Her most cited work include:
- Thin slices of expressive behavior as predictors of interpersonal consequences: A meta-analysis. (1359 citations)
- On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysis. (1207 citations)
- Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance (970 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Social perception, Perception and Cognitive psychology are her primary areas of study.
Her work carried out in the field of Social psychology brings together such families of science as Face perception, Categorization, Nonverbal communication and Social cognition.
Her Developmental psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Identity, Stereotype, Facial expression and Race.
Her Social perception study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Interpersonal relationship, Sexual orientation and Prejudice.
Her Perception research integrates issues from Face and Communication.
Her Cognitive psychology research focuses on Cognition and how it connects with Construal level theory.
She most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (61.43%)
- Developmental psychology (29.52%)
- Social perception (28.57%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2013-2019)?
- Social psychology (61.43%)
- Cognitive psychology (24.29%)
- Perception (25.24%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Nalini Ambady mostly deals with Social psychology, Cognitive psychology, Perception, Social perception and Developmental psychology.
As part of her studies on Social psychology, Nalini Ambady frequently links adjacent subjects like Lesbian.
As a part of the same scientific study, Nalini Ambady usually deals with the Cognitive psychology, concentrating on Embodied cognition and frequently concerns with Stereotype and Motor cognition.
Nalini Ambady combines subjects such as PsycINFO, Sexual orientation, Secrecy and Cognition with her study of Perception.
She has researched Social perception in several fields, including Context, Nonverbal communication, Prejudice, Social cue and Social cognition.
She works mostly in the field of Developmental psychology, limiting it down to topics relating to Social group and, in certain cases, Intersectionality, Salience, First impression and Affect, as a part of the same area of interest.
Between 2013 and 2019, her most popular works were:
- Simulating sensorimotor metaphors: novel metaphors influence sensory judgments. (35 citations)
- Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children's memory for racially ambiguous faces. (34 citations)
- Cognition from on high and down low: Verticality and construal level. (31 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Law
- Cognition
Her primary areas of study are Developmental psychology, Perception, Social psychology, Social perception and Metaphor.
Her study looks at the relationship between Developmental psychology and fields such as Categorization, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
Her work deals with themes such as Construals, Cognition, Social cognition, Chemistry and Social group, which intersect with Perception.
Her studies in Social psychology integrate themes in fields like PsycINFO and Employment discrimination.
Social perception and Sexual orientation are commonly linked in her work.
In Metaphor, Nalini Ambady works on issues like Embodied cognition, which are connected to Cognitive psychology.
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