About Paula
Paula M. Niedenthal received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and was on the faculty of the departments of Psychology at Johns Hopkins University and Indiana University (USA). She is currently Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research and member of the Laboratory in Social and Cognitive Psychology at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her areas of research include emotion-cognition interaction and representational models of emotion. Author of more than 100 articles and chapters, and several books, Dr. Niedenthal is a fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Education
1978 - 1981
Bachelors of Arts (Psychology, with honors)
University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA)
1982 - 1987
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Social Psychology
Dissertation title “Unconscious Affect in Social Cognition”
Advisors: Nancy Cantor and Robert Zajonc
University of Michigan (USA)
2000
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)
Habilitation title: "Les Influences des Emotions dans la Perception et
la Catégorisation [Influences of Emotion in Perception and
Categorization]"
Université Blaise Pascal (France)
The Habilitation confers the right to train doctoral students in
France
Professional Positions
1982 - 1987
Research Assistant
Research Center for Group Dynamics
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (USA)
1987 - 1993
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Johns Hopkins University (USA)
1992 - 1993
Visiting Scholar
Department of Psychology
Indiana University (USA)
1993 - 1998
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Indiana University (USA)
1998 - 1999
Full Professor
Department of Psychology and Program in Cognitive Science
Indiana University (USA)
1998 - 1999
Visiting professor
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
1999 – 2003
Chargée de Recherche de Première Classe (tenured Research
Scientist) (CNRS)
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
2006-2007
Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA)
2003– 2010
Directeur de Recherche de Deuxième Classe (tenured Research
Scientist) (CNRS)
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
2010– présent
Directeur de Recherche de Première Classe (tenured Research
Scientist) (CNRS)
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Professional Activities
Associate editor
Cognition and Emotion, 2001 - 2002
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2002 - 2004Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 2008 - 2010Emotion Review, 2008 -
presentSocial Psychological and Personality Science, 2010 - present
Editorial boards
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1991 – present
Psychological Bulletin, 1993 – 1996
European Journal of Social Psychology, 1998 – 2001
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1999 – present
Emotion, 2000 – 2002
Cognition and Emotion, 2001 – present
Psychological Inquiry, starting in 2003
Reviewer
Cognition and Emotion
Cognitive Therapy and Research
Journal of Abnormal Psychology Current Psychology Letters
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Research in Personality
Journal of Research on Adolescence
L’Année Psychologique
Memory and Cognition
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Review of Personality and Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique (NSF – Switzerland)
Fonds National Belge de la Recherche Scientifique (NSF - Belgium)
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Consultant
Cornell University Press
Harper and Row Publishers
Harvard University Press
Houghton-Mifflin Co.
W.W. Norton & Co.
Professional affiliations
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (APA Division 8)
Midwestern Psychological Association
Society for Experimental Social Psychology
International Society for Research on Emotion
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
Panel for Social and Developmental Psychology, National Science
Foundation (1998-2000)
Conference organizer
Meetings of Mid Atlantic Social Psychology, Johns Hopkins
University; Baltimore, MD, April 1991
Program committee, Meetings of the American Psychological Society;
Dallas, TX, June, 1991
Program committee, Attitudes and social cognition. Meetings of the
Midwestern Psychological Association; Chicago, May, 1995 - 1997
Program committee, Meetings of the International Society for Research
on Emotion; New York, June, 2004
Grants & Contracts
2007-2011
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France)
Co-PI with Sylvie Droit, Martial Mermillod, and Maria Augustinova
“La Reconnaissance des Expressions Faciales d’Emotion et les Theories
de l’Esprit Incarné”
1 697 616 €
2004-2007
Action Concerté Iniciative (ACI) PROSODIE PRO-0014
Ministre de l’Education (France)
Co-PI with Sylvie Droit-Volet and Elizabeth Phelps
"La Perception du Temps selmon l’emotion Perçue chez Autrui :
Approche Developpementale et Neuro-Psychologique"
2004-2007
National Science Foundation (USA)
Co-PI with Dr. Piotr Winkielman, UCSD “Embodiment of Emotion Concepts”
Award: $236 617
2000 – 2002
Programme Cognitique (Action 2000) du Ministre de la Recherche et la
Technologie, Cognitique, “Lexique et Emotion“
(en collaboration avec Catherine Auxiette, Patrick Bonin, et Michel
Fayol)
1996 - 1999
National Science Foundation (USA)
“Emotion and Perceptual Processes.”
Award : $242 532
1992 - 1993
National Science Foundation (USA)
Career Advancement Award for Women
Award: $58 692
1990 - 1995
National Institute of Mental Health (USA)
FIRST award. “Affective Bases of Person Perception” (series 1 & 2)
Award : $256 201
1990 - 1993
National Science Foundation (USA)
“Affective Bases of Person Perception” (series 3)
Award: $114 492
1990 - 1991
NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant,The Johns Hopkins University
“Prototype-Matching and Emotion Regulation.”
Award: $4 000
1988 - 1989
NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant,The Johns Hopkins University
“Self-Concept Complexity and Affect.”
Award: $12 000
1988 - 1989
NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant, The Johns Hopkins University
“Affective Basis of the Attractiveness Stereotype.”
Award : $6 000
1987 - 1988
NIH Biomedical Research Support Grant, The Johns Hopkins University
“Affective Bases of Social Cognition.”
Award: $10 214
Prizes & Honors
Theoretical Innovation Award, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004
Fellow, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003
International Projects and Activities Grant, Indiana University, 1995 & 1997
Distinguished Teacher Award Finalist, Johns Hopkins University, 1992
Teaching Excellence Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1989-1990
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1986 - 1987
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Award, University of Michigan, 1986-1987
Rackham Thesis Grant, University of Michigan, 1986-1987