Social Psychologist Adam Galinsky to Visit Williams College

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 15, 2016—Adam Galinsky, social psychologist and business school professor, will speak at Williams College on Monday, April 18, and Tuesday, April 19. The Monday talk will take place at 4:15 p.m. in Bronfman Science Center, room 105. The Tuesday talk will take place during a psychology class at 9:55 a.m. in Bronfman Auditorium. Both talks are free and open to the public.

Galinsky is currently the chair of the Management Division and the Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. He has published more than 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics.

He is the co-author of critically acclaimed and best-selling book, Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both. The book offers a new perspective on conflict and cooperation and has received positive reviews from the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, and INC.

Galinsky’s research has received numerous national and international awards from the scientific community. In 2016, he was a Career Trajectory Award recipient from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology; Thinkers50 selected him as one of the Best Thinkers on Talent in 2015; and Poets and Quants selected him as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors in 2012. He has received teaching awards at the Kellogg School of Management and Princeton University. He has consulted with and conducted executive workshops for hundreds of clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, non-profits, and local and national governments, and has served as a legal expert in multiple defamation lawsuits. He is the associate producer on two award-winning documentaries, Horns and Halos and Battle for Brooklyn, both of which were short-listed for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Harvard University.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Psychology.

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Published April 15, 2016