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Melissa Ferguson is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, specializing in experimental social psychology. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2002. Prior to joining Yale in 2020, she was a faculty member at Cornell University from 2002 to 2020. Ferguson's research focuses on implicit cognitive processes that enable evaluation, goal pursuit, self-control, and social behavior. Recent topics from her lab include updating impressions and controlling behavior, as well as the expression of prejudice. Her work has been published in prestigious outlets such as Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Her research has also received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
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