Daniel Ames

     
Institution
Columbia Business School

Current Position
Associate Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from University of California, Berkeley, 1999

Research Interests
Attribution
Culture/Ethnicity
Helping/Pro-Social Behavior
Interpersonal Processes
Judgment/Decision Making
Nonverbal Behavior
Organizational Behavior
Person Perception
Prejudice/Stereotyping
Social Cognition

Courses Taught
Strategic Managerial Decision Making
Leadership
Managerial Negotiations

 
Daniel Ames
Columbia Business School
Columbia University
3022 Broadway
New York, New York 10027
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (212) 854-0784
Fax: (212) 316-9355



Daniel Ames
My work focuses on social judgment and behavior. I examine how people form impressions of individuals and groups as well as the consequences of these impressions on prosocial behaviors (e.g., trust, cooperation, helping), competitive interaction (e.g., conflict, exploitation, aggression), and justice judgments (e.g., praise, blame, punishment). A central aspect of this work is the folk psychology of everyday “mind-reading" -- how we make inferences about what the people around us think, want, and feel.


Journal Articles:

  • Ames, D. R. (2004). Inside the mind-reader’s toolkit: Projection and stereotyping in mental state inference. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 340-353.
  • Ames, D. R. (2004). Strategies for social inference: A similarity contingency model of projection and stereotyping in attribute prevalence estimates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 573-585.
  • Ames, D. R., & Flynn, F. J. (2007). What breaks a leader: The curvilinear relation between assertiveness and leadership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
  • Ames, D. R., Flynn, F. J., & Weber, E. U. (2004). It’s the thought that counts: On perceiving how helpers decide to lend a hand. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 461–474.
  • Ames, D. R., & Iyengar, S. S. (2005). Appraising the unusual: Framing effects and moderators of uniqueness-seeking and social projection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
  • Ames, D. R., & Kammrath, L. K. (2004). Mind-reading and metacognition: Narcissism, not actual competence, predicts self-estimated ability. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28, 187-209.
  • Ames, D. R., Rose, P., Anderson, C. P. (2006). The NPI-16 as a short measure of narcissism. Journal of Research in Personality.
  • Kammrath, L. K., Ames, D. R., & Scholer, A. A. (2006). Keeping up impressions: Inferential rules for impression change across the Big Five. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology.

Other Publications:

  • Ames, D. R. (2005). Everyday solutions to the problem of other minds. In B. F. Malle and S. D. Hodges (Eds.), Other Minds. New York: Guilford Publications.

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