Human Networks Colloquium WHAT: Professor Nalini Ambady (Tufts University): "Accuracy of Thin Slice Judgments" WHEN: Friday, April 1, 2005, 1:00 PM EST WHERE: Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab (E15) HOSTED BY: Judith Donath, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab SUMMARY: Ambady will discuss a body of work on the accuracy of brief impressions from "thin slices" of behavior. Besides discussing accuracy based on different channels of communication, she will also discuss the boundary conditions for such accuracy and the influence of both cognitive and affective factors on accuracy. BIO: Nalini Ambady received her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. After teaching at Holy Cross College, she joined the faculty at Harvard in 1994. Her research interests include examining the accuracy of social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, how personal and social identities affect cognition and performance, dyadic interactions especially those involving status differentiated dyads, and nonverbal communication. She is particularly interested in applying innovative and integrative methods to examine these phenomena from multiple perspectives ranging from the biological to the sociocultural. MIT Media Laboratory Home Page | Events Main Index