Melissa Ferguson and Baruch Eitam

Melissa Ferguson,

Assistant Professor, Psychology Cornell University, United States

Baruch Eitam,

Post Doctorate Researcher, Psychology Columbia University, United States

Melissa Ferguson received her PhD in social psychology from New York University in 2002. She then moved to Cornell University, where she is currently an associate professor in the psychology department. Her research is social-cognitive in its approach, which means she uses and refers to theories and methods from both social and cognitive psychology. Her interests include the implicit activation and operation of attitudes, goal pursuit and motivation, ideology, and decision making. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Science, Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the BiNational Science Foundation.

Baruch Eitam received his PhD in psychology (Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University in 2009. He then moved to the United States where he is currently a post doctorate researcher at the psychology departments at Cornell and Columbia Universities. His research is social-cognitive in its approach, which means he uses and refers to theories and methods from both social and cognitive psychology. His interests include the interaction between goal pursuit, motivation and learning, selective attention, and the functional role of implicit attitudes. His work has appeared in Psychological Scienceand in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. His research has been supported by the McClelland Center for Research and Innovation.

Source: Center for Practical Wisdom, University of Chicago