Melissa Ferguson

Professor of Psychology

Melissa Ferguson is an experimental social psychologist. She received her doctorate in social psychology from New York University in 2002, was a faculty member in the psychology department at Cornell University from 2002-2020, and then joined the psychology department at Yale University in 2020.  Her research focuses on the implicit cognitive processes that enable evaluation, goal-pursuit, self-control, and social behavior. 

Her research has appeared in outlets such as Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyTrends in Cognitive SciencesJournal of Experimental Psychology: General, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

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melissa.ferguson@yale.edu

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