Tanya Chartrand
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Tanya Chartrand | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Santa Clara University: New York University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Tanya L. Chartrand is a social psychologist known for her research on consumer behavior and on non-conscious processes influencing emotions, cognition, and behavior.[1] Chartrand is the Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University.[2]
She and her doctoral advisor, John Bargh, are widely cited for their groundbreaking research on social mimicry,[3] which they referred to as the chameleon effect.[4]
Chartrand completed her B.S. degree in Psychology and Spanish at Santa Clara University in 1994. She attended graduate school at New York University where she obtained a M.A. in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a concentration in Quantitative Psychology in 1999. Her dissertation was titled "Consequences of success and failure at automatic goal pursuit for mood, self-efficacy, and subsequent performance."[5]
Chartrand was assistant professor of psychology at The Ohio State University from 1999 to 2003 before joining the Faculty of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Business Administration at Duke University in 2003. She became a professor of Business Administration from 2008 to 2011. Chartrand's research has been funded by National Institute for Mental Health.[6][7]