In 2012, she was an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she taught leadership in organizations in the MBA program and research methods in the doctoral program. Academic career įrom 2005 to 2006, Cuddy was an assistant professor of psychology at Rutgers University. She received a Master of Arts in 2003 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2005 in social psychology (dissertation: 'The BIAS Map: Behavior from intergroup affect and stereotypes') from Princeton University. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1998 to 2000 before transferring to Princeton University to follow her adviser, Susan Fiske. In 1998, Cuddy earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado.

She graduated from Conrad Weiser High School in 1990. Early life and education Ĭuddy grew up in the small Pennsylvanian town of Robesonia. Though Cuddy left her tenure-track position at Harvard Business School in the spring of 2017, she continues to contribute to its executive education programs. Cuddy's most cited academic work involves using the stereotype content model that she helped develop to better understand the way people think about stereotyped people and groups. She has served as a faculty member at Rutgers University, Kellogg School of Management and Harvard Business School.

She is a proponent of ' power posing', a self-improvement technique whose scientific validity has been questioned. The BIAS Map: Behavior from intergroup affect and stereotypes (2005)Īmy Joy Casselberry Cuddy (born July 23, 1972) is an American social psychologist, author and speaker.

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