Wendy Wood (psychologist)
American social psychologist
Wendy Wood is a UK-born psychologist who is the Provost Professor Emerita of Psychology and Business at University of Southern California, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. She previously served as vice dean of social sciences at the Dornsife College of the University of Southern California. Her primary research contributions are in habits and behavior change along with the psychology of gender.
She is the author of the popular science book, Good Habits, Bad Habits, released in 2019.
Background
Wood completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Prior to USC, Wood was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Texas A&M University as the Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts, and Duke University, where she was the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Wood is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and a founding member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. She has also served as associate editor of Psychological Review, American Psychologist, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. She served as president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) and the Association for Psychological Science. Her research has been recognized with awards, including a 2007 Radcliffe Institute fellowship, the 2021 Distinguished Contribution Award from Attitudes and Social influence, and the 2022 Career Contribution Award from SPSP. Her scientific research has been cited almost 60,000 times.
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