Kelly Nault
Assistant Professor of HR&OB
IE Business School
My research focuses on person perceptions and social decision making in organizations. I study how individuals are perceived when enacting behaviors that help them attain social rank, as well as how our expectations and stereotypes of members of particular groups shape our evaluations of and interactions with them. To examine these phenomena, I use primarily experimental designs, coupled with meta-analytic methods, econometric analyses of archival data, and natural language processing techniques. My research has been published in journals such as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Academy of Management Annals, and Current Opinion in Psychology. My work has also been featured in practitioner-oriented publications such as Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine.
I completed by PhD in Organizational Behavior at INSEAD, Singapore. Prior to joining academia, I worked as the Research Associate Program Coordinator at Baystate Medical Center and the Lab Manager in the Society, Health, and Psychology Laboratory at Smith College. I earned my BA in Psychology and a minor in Comparative Literature from the American University of Paris.