Dana R. Carney

Carney's field of study is nonverbal communication,[4][5] power and status,[6] and racial bias and discrimination[7] She has published over 50 articles on these topics in her 10 years as a faculty member.[8][9] Prior to serving on the faculty at UC Berkeley she was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Previous to Columbia she spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in the Psychology Department working with Mahzarin Banaji,[10] Wendy Berry Mendes, and Moshe Bar. She received her PhD is Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University working with Judith A. Hall and C. Randall Colvin. She also received a Masters degree at California State University, Fullerton working with Jinni A. Harrigan and Ronald E. Riggio and a B.A. from the University of San Francisco working with Maureen O'Sullivan.[11]

Carney is the primary author of the power pose phenomenon popularized by Amy Cuddy. The idea of power posing builds on a paper Carney published in 2005 called "Beliefs about the nonverbal expression of social power" and a finding called the facial feedback hypothesis (which has come under some scrutiny for possibly being a false positive finding; however a recent paper suggests the facial feedback hypothesis may be a true phenomenon after all)[12]. After many failed replications of Carney's power pose work, Carney posted a note on her personal website explaining that she no longer believed in the effects of power posing on feelings, hormones, and risk-taking behavior. This "position on power poses"[13] note contributed to the discussion of replicability in psychological science by Carney being among a first recent batch of scientists publicly disclosing they did not, after failed replications, have faith in their own research. Carney was applauded for her willingness to disclose her doubts.[14][15][16]