curriculum vita

Dana R. Carney

Full CV --- My position on "Power Poses"

Current Position
Associate Professor, Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology); Director, Institute for Personality and Social Research

Selected Publications
Carney, D. R. (in press). The nonverbal display of power, status, and dominance. Current Opinion in Psychology.

ten Brinke, L., Lee, J. J., & Carney, D. R. (2019). Different physiological reactions when observing lies vs. truths: initial evidence and an intervention to enhance accuracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Yip, J. A., Stein, D., Côté, Stéphane, & Carney, D. R. (2019). Follow your gut? Emotional Intelligence moderates the association between physiologically measured somatic markers and risk-taking. Emotion.

Pfeffer, J., & Carney, D. R. (2018). The economic evaluation of time causes stress. Academy of Management Discoveries.

Hall, J. A., Gunnery, S., Letzring, T., Carney, D. R., & Colvin, C. R. (in press). Accuracy of judging affect and accuracy of judging personality: How and when are they related? Journal of Personality.

ten Brinke, L., Vohs, K., & Carney, D. R. (2016). Can ordinary people detect deception after all? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 579-588. [.pdf]

Rogers, T., ten Brinke, L., & Carney, D. R. (2016). Unacquainted callers can predict which citizens will vote over and above citizens’ stated self-predictions. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 113, 6449-6453. [.pdf] [data on OSF]

Vacharkulksemsuk, T., Reit, E., Khambatta, P., Eastwick, P., Finkel, E., & Carney, D. (2016). Dominant, open nonverbal displays are attractive at zero-acquaintance. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 113, 4009-4014. [paper .pdf] [online supplement .pdf] [data on OSF]

Ten Brinke, L., Lee, J. & Carney, D. R. (2015). The physiology of (dis)honesty: Is it bad for your health? Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 177-182. [.pdf]

ten Brinke, L., Khambatta, P., & Carney, D. R. (2015). Telling Lies in scarce environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology, General, 144, 982-992. [.pdf]

Willard, G., Isaac, K. J., & Carney, D. R. (2015). Some evidence for the nonverbal contagion of implicit racial bias. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 128, 96-107. [.pdf]

Cuddy, A. J. C., Wilmuth, C., & Carney, D. R. (2015). Preparatory power poses enhance performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 1286-1295. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C, & Yap, A. J. (2015). Summary of research on the embodied effects of expansive (vs. contractive) nonverbal displays. Psychological Science, 26, 657-663. [.pdf] [media lab files and protocol] [data in .zip file]
The 33 experiments in this summary were subjected to a p-curve analysis that suggests the effect is not likely real [link]

tenBrinke, L., & Carney, D. R. (2014). Wanted: Direct Comparisons of Unconscious versus Conscious Lie Detection. Psychological Science, 25, 162-163. [.pdf]

tenBrinke, L., Stimson, D., & Carney, D. R. (2014). Some evidence for unconscious lie detection. Psychological Science, 25, 1098-1105. [.pdf] [data] [email the authors for videotapes of lies/truths - ethics approved and freely available for use]

This paper was the subject of a comment [.pdf] and a re-analysis [.pdf].

Yap, A. J., Wazlawek, A., Lucas, B., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Carney, D. R. (2013). The ergonomics of dishonesty: The effect of incidental expansive posture on stealing, cheating and traffic violations. Psychological Science, 24, 2281-2289. [.pdf]

Park, S. W., Ferrero, J., Colvin, C. R., & Carney, D. R. (2013). Narcissism and negotiation: Economic gain and interpersonal loss. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. [.pdf]

Ronay, R., & Carney, D. R. (2013). Testosterone’s negative relationship with empathic accuracy and perceived leadership ability. Social Psychological and Personality Science. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., & Banaji, M. R. (2012). First is Best. PLoS ONE, 7. [.pdf]

Norton, M. I., Dunn, E. W., Carney, D. R., & Ariely, D. (2012). The persuasive “power” of stigma. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. [.pdf]

Krieger N., Waterman, P. D., Kosheleva, A., Chen, J. T., Carney, D. R., Smith, K. W., Bennett, G. G., Williams, D. R., Freeman, E., Russell, B., Thornhill, G., Mikolowsky, K., Rifkin, R., & Samuels, L. (2011). Racial discrimination & health: Implicit & explicit measures -- the My Body, My Story study of 1005 US-born black & white community health center members. PLoS ONE, 6. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Yap, A. J. (2010). Power poses: Brief nonverbal displays cause neuroendocrine change and increase risk tolerance. Psychological Science, 21, 1363-1368. [.pdf] [media lab files and protocol] [data in .zip folder]

This result failed to replicate in an adequately powered sample. See: Ranehill, Dreber, Johannesson, Leiberg, Sul, & Weber (2015). [.pdf] and a p-curve analysis also suggested the effect is not likely real [.pdf]

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. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., & Colvin, C. R. (2010). The circumplex structure of affective social behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 73-80. [.pdf]

Jost, J. T., Rudman, L. A., Blair, I. V., Carney, D. R., Dasgupta, N., Glaser, J., & Hardin, C. D. (2009). The existence of implicit bias is beyond scientific doubt: A refutation of ideological and methodological objections and executive summary of ten studies that no manager should ignore. Research in Organizational Behavior, 29, 39-69. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., Jost, J. T., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The secret lives of liberals and conservatives: Personality profiles, interaction styles, and the things they leave behind. Political Psychology, 29, 807-840. [.pdf]

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. [.pdf]

Green, A., Carney, D. R., Pallin, D., Ngo, H., Raymond, L., Iezzoni, L., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). The presence of implicit bias in physicians and its prediction of thrombolysis decisions for black and white patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22, 1231-1238. [.pdf]

This work was featured as a part of amicus briefs filed in Fisher v. University of Texas for the Supreme Court of the United States.
This paper was the subject of a statistical and methodological criticism [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., Nosek, B. A., Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (2007). The Implicit Association Test (IAT). In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 463-464). Thousand Oaks : CA, Sage. [.pdf]

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. [.pdf]

Carney, D. R., & Harrigan, J. A. (2003). It takes one to know one: Interpersonal sensitivity is related to accurate assessments of others' interpersonal sensitivity. Emotion, 3, 194-200. [.pdf]