Melissa Williams
Assistant Professor of Organization & Management
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Phone: 404-727-6693
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Email: mjwilliams@emory.edu
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Goizueta Business School
Emory University
1300 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
Biography
Melissa J. Williams joined the Goizueta faculty in 2011, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Williams earned a PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the components of interpersonal interaction that operate outside of conscious awareness. In one line of research, for example she studies the role of people’s underlying beliefs about social identity (such as race and gender) in interactions across groups. Other work explores cultural differences in social decision making. Finally, in recent work Williams has been investigating the effects of interpersonal dominance and one’s position in an organizational hierarchy on interpersonal behavior.
Publications
- Fundamental(ist) attribution error: Protestants are dispositionally focused. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(2), 281-290. With Y. J. Li, K. A. Johnson, A. B. Cohen, E. D. Knowles, and Z. Chen. 2012.
- Selectively friending: Racial stereotypicality and social rejection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1329-1335. With M. R. Hebl, J. Sundermann, H. Kell, and P. G. Davies. 2012.
- Culture and stereotyping processes: Integration and new directions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4(8), 591-604. With J. Spencer-Rodgers. 2010.
- Cultural differences in expectations of change and tolerance for contradiction: A decade of empirical research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14(3), 296-312. With J. Spencer-Rodgers and K. Peng. 2010.
- The masculinity of money: Nonconscious stereotypes predict gender differences in salary estimates. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 34, 107-120. With E. L. Paluck and J. Spencer-Rodgers. 2010.
- Biological conceptions of race and the motivation to cross racial boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(6), 1033-1047. With J. L. Eberhardt. 2008
- Not yet human: Implicit knowledge, historical dehumanization, and contemporary consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(2), 292-306. With P. A. Goff, J. L. Eberhardt, and M. C. Jackson. 2008.
- Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(4), 525-543. With J. Spencer-Rodgers, D. L. Hamilton, K. Peng, and L. Wang. 2007.
Areas of Specialization
- Social psychology
- Social cognition
- Culture
- Diversity in organizations
- Power and leadership
- Gender
Achievements and Honors
- Geis Memorial Award for Dissertation Research (Div. 35, American Psychological Association)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley
- University of California Institute for Labor & Employment Master’s Fellowship
Memberships and Activities
- Professional memberships – Academy of Management, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Consulting editor – Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Ad hoc reviewer – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, Self & Identity, Social Psychological & Personality Science
Education
| 2008 | PhD | Social/Personality Psychology | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 1995 | BA | Psychology | Rice University |
