Adrienne Wood serves on TYDE’s Steering Committee and is the faculty co-lead of its Seed Grants Committee with Nancy Deutsch.
Wood is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department. She directs the Emotion and Behavior Lab, which studies social connection at two timescales. First, she studies how social connection begins and develops through moments of shared laughter, interesting conversation, and synchrony. These fleeting interactions accumulate to become a web of social connections, and the structure of a person’s network impacts their well-being and access to resources. That’s why the Emotion and Behavior Lab’s second emphasis is how people build their wider social networks.
Adrienne earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College. She has received an NSF CAREER award, a Templeton Foundation grant, the University of Virginia Outstanding Researcher Award, and an APS Rising Star Award.
Her publications include articles in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Journal of Experimental Psychology.