Professor Dr. Tessa Charlesworth

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Tessa Charlesworth is an Assistant Professor in Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her research explores the dynamics of social beliefs and attitudes over time, focusing on how biases against social groups can shift and evolve. Charlesworth adopts a multi-level, multi-method research approach to better understand how these changes unfold at the individual, organizational, and collective levels. Her work has been published in top journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, and the Harvard Business Review, and has garnered attention from popular media outlets like Scientific American and NPR. In addition to her academic contributions, she has served as a primary science advisor for the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit on bias. Charlesworth holds a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University, where she received a dissertation award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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