PAMELA KAREN SMITH

Rady School of Management

University of California, San Diego

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La Jolla, CA 92093-0553

Phone: 858-***-****

E-mail: abpoxb@r.postjobfree.com

http://pamela.smith.socialpsychology.org

POSITIONS

Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego

Assistant Professor, 2009-present

Social Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen

Assistant Professor, 2008-2009

Behavioural Science Institute Postdoctoral Researcher, 2006-2008

Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University

Assistant Professor, 2005-2006

Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam

Postdoctoral Researcher, 2004-2005

EDUCATION

Ph.D., New York University, Social Psychology, Quantitative minor, 2004

Dissertation: You focus on the forest when you re in charge of the trees: The effect of

power priming on information processing

Advisor: Dr. Yaacov Trope

M.A., New York University, Social Psychology, 2001

B.A. with high honors, University of Michigan, Psychology and Creative Writing, 1996

Honors Thesis: Influence of ethnic identity complexity on reactions to racial

discrimination

Advisor: Dr. Marita Inglehart

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

University of California, San Diego Hellman Fellowship, 2011-12

Radboud University Nijmegen Professor Dr. Jacques Janssen Bokaal award, 2008

Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, 2005

New York University Stuart Cook Award in Social Psychology, 2004

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Poster Award, Honorable Mention, 2003

& 2004

New York University Katzell Summer Fellowship, 2003

New York University Student Travel Grant, 2002 & 2003

New York University Henry Mitchell MacCracken Fellowship, 1999-2004

National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship, 1999-2003

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Psi Chi Program Best Paper Award, Midwestern Psychological Association, 1997

J. P. Guilford/Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Award, 1996

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1995

Golden Key National Honor Society, University of Michigan, 1995

Psi Chi, University of Michigan, 1995

PUBLICATIONS

Smith, P. K., & McCulloch, K. C. (in press). Subliminal perception. In V. Ramachandran (Ed.),

Encyclopedia of human behavior (2nd ed.). New York: Elsevier.

Stel, M., van Dijk, E., Smith, P. K., van Dijk, W. W., & Djalal, F. M. (in press). Lowering the

pitch of your voice makes you feel more powerful and think more abstractly. Social

Psychological and Personality Science.

Karremans, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2010). Having the power to forgive: When the experience of

power increases interpersonal forgiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,

36, 1010-1023.

Smith, P. K., & Galinsky, A. D. (2010). The nonconscious nature of power: Cues and

consequences. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 918 938

Smith, P. K., & Ledgerwood, A. (2010). Three problems with dual systems. Psychological

Inquiry, 21, 242-249.

Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Nonconscious effects of power on basic approach and

avoidance tendencies. Social Cognition, 26, 1-24.

Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A., & Chaiken, S. (2008). Subliminal exposure to faces and racial

attitudes: Exposure to Whites makes Whites like Blacks less. Journal of Experimental

Social Psychology, 44, 50-64.

Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2008). Powerful people make good

decisions even when they consciously think. Psychological Science, 19, 1258-1259.

Smith, P. K., Jost, J. T., & Vijay, R. (2008). Legitimacy crisis? Behavioral approach and

inhibition when power differences are left unexplained. Social Justice Research, 21, 358-

376.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. (2008). Lacking power impairs

executive functions. Psychological Science, 19, 441 447.

Smith, P. K., Wigboldus, D. H. J., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2008). Abstract thinking increases one s

sense of power. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 378-385.

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Oettingen, G., Grant, H., Smith, P. K., Skinner, M., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2006). Nonconscious

goal pursuit: Acting in an explanatory vacuum. Journal of Experimental Social

Psychology, 42, 668-675.

Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2006). You focus on the forest when you re in charge of the trees:

Power priming and abstract information processing. Journal of Personality and Social

Psychology, 90, 578-596.

Dijksterhuis, A., Aarts, H., & Smith, P. K. (2005). The power of the subliminal: On subliminal

persuasion and other potential applications. In R. R. Hassin, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh

(Eds.), The new unconscious (pp. 77-106). New York: Oxford University Press.

Dijksterhuis, A. & Smith, P. K. (2005). What do we do unconsciously? And how? Journal of

Consumer Psychology, 15, 225-229.

Dijksterhuis, A., Smith, P. K., Van Baaren, R. B., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2005). The

unconscious consumer: Effects of environment on consumer behavior. Journal of

Consumer Psychology, 15, 193-202.

Dijksterhuis, A., & Smith, P. K. (2002). Affective habituation: Subliminal exposure to extreme

stimuli decreases their extremity. Emotion, 2, 203-214.

Park, D. C., Lautenschlager, G., Hedden, T., Davidson, N. S., Smith, A. D., & Smith, P. K.

(2002). Models of visuospatial and verbal memory across the adult life span. Psychology

and Aging, 17, 299-320.

McKenna, K. Y. A., Green, A. S., & Smith, P. K. (2001). Demarginalizing the sexual self.

Journal of Sex Research, 38, 302-311.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., & Galinsky, A. D. (2012). The uncertain nature of powerlessness

impairs executive functions. Talk to be given at the Society for Personality and Social

Psychology Thirteenth Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.

Magee, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2011). What drives the psychological effects of power? An

integration of the Approach/Inhibition and Social Distance Theories. Talk given at the

Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management, Istanbul, Turkey.

Smith, P. K. (2011). On power and the weighting of feasibility and desirability information in

decision-making. Talk given at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, San

Antonio, Texas.

Smith, P. K., & Magee, J. C. (2011). The social distance theory of power. Talk given at the

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Person Memory Interest Group Meeting, Montross, Virginia.

Wakslak, C., & Smith, P. K. (2011). Psychological distance at work: Insights from Construal

Level Theory. Symposium co-chaired at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting,

San Antonio, Texas.

Smith, P. K., & Carney, D. R. (2010). The hormonal and behavioral bases of power. Symposium

co-chaired at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference, Minneapolis,

Minnesota.

Smith, P. K. (2010). Approach behavior increases one s sense of power. Talk given at the

Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Smith, P. K., & Schouwstra, A. (2010). Approach behavior increases one s sense of power. Talk

given at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Magee, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2010). What drives the psychological effects of power? An

integration of the approach/inhibition and social distance theories. Talk given at Duck

Conference on Social Cognition, Buck Island, North Carolina.

Smith, P. K., Bargh, J. A., & Leshner, A. (2010). Having power makes people more implemental

in their goal-related decision-making. Talk given at the Society for Consumer

Psychology Annual Winter Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. W. (2009). Lacking power

impairs executive functions. Talk given at Duck Conference on Social Cognition, Buck

Island, North Carolina.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. W. (2009). Lacking power

impairs executive functions. Poster given at the Society for Personality and Social

Psychology Tenth Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida.

Smith, P. K. (2008). Approach behavior increases one s sense of power. Talk given at the 3rd

EAESP Meeting on the Psychology of Attitudes: Affective Processes in Evaluation, Berg

en Dal, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K. (2008). Lacking power impairs executive functions. Talk given at the Kurt Lewin

Institute Conference, Zeist, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K. (2008). Lacking power impairs executive functions. Talk given at the Social

Cognition Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Ninth Annual

Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Smith, P. K. (2008). The psychological path to power is a perpetual loop: Cognitive and

behavioral processes induced by power increase one s sense of power. Talk given at the

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European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Volterra, Italy.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. W. (2008). Lacking power

impairs executive functions. Talk given at the European Association for Experimental

Social Psychology 15th General Meeting, Opatija, Croatia.

Smith, P. K. (2007). Approach behavior increases one s sense of power. Poster given at the

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Eighth Annual Meeting, Memphis,

Tennessee.

Smith, P. K. (2007). The social cognition of power: A low-level approach to understanding the

big shots. Talk given at the Verenigde Studieverenigingen Sociale Wetenschappen

(VSSW) Conference on Power, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. (2007). How executives function:

The impact of power on executive control. Talk given at the European Social Cognition

Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Brno, Czech Republic.

Smith, P. K., Jostmann, N. B., Galinsky, A. D., & van Dijk, W. (2007). How executives function:

The impact of power on executive control. Talk given at the Kurt Lewin Institute

Workshop On the dark side of self-regulation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K. (2006). A construal-level model of power and decision-making. Talk given at the

European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference,

Pultusk/Warsaw, Poland.

Smith, P. K. (2006). A construal-level model of power and decision-making. Informal paper

presentation given at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Smith, P. K. (2006). The social cognition of power: Its basic effects on cognition and behavior.

Talk given at the Kurt Lewin Institute Conference, Zeist, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K. (2006). The social cognition of power: A low-level approach to understanding the

big shots. Workshop given at the Stichting Studieverenigingen Psychologie Nederland

(SSPN) Conference on Power, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Smith, P. K., Dijksterhuis, A. & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2006). Social power leads to more

abstract, intuitive information processing. Talk given at the Second Workshop on

Cognitive and Social Perspectives on (Un)consciousness: Intuitive Information

Processing, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.

Smith, P. K., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2006). Focusing on the big picture makes you feel like a big

shot: Abstract mindsets increase perceived power. Poster given at the Society for

Personality and Social Psychology Seventh Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California.

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Smith, P. K. (2005). The bidirectional relationship between power and abstract thought. Talk

given at the Person Memory Interest Group Meeting, Julian, California.

Smith, P. K. (2005). The social cognition of power: Nonconscious processes. Symposium

chaired at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Sixth Annual Meeting, New

Orleans, Louisiana.

Smith, P. K. (2005). You focus on the forest when you re in charge of the trees: Power priming

and abstract information processing. Talk given at the European Association for

Experimental Social Psychology 14th General Meeting, W rzburg, Germany.

Smith, P. K., Bargh, J. A., & Leshner, A. (2005). Nonconscious effects of power on the process

of goal pursuit. Talk given at the Small Group Meeting on Self Regulation and Intergroup

Phenomena, Jena, Germany.

Smith, P. K., & Trope, Y. (2005). You focus on the forest when you re in charge of the trees:

Power priming and abstract information processing. Talk given at the Society for

Personality and Social Psychology Sixth Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Smith, P. K., Trope, Y., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2005). Power leads to abstract thinking, and

abstract thinking leads to power. Talk given at the European Social Cognition Network

Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Vitznau, Switzerland.

Smith, P. K., Bargh, J. A., & Leshner, A. (2004). Nonconscious effects of power on the process

of goal pursuit. Poster given at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Fifth

Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, P., Smith, P. K., Grant-Pillow, H., & Skinner, M. (2003). Conscious

and nonconscious goal pursuit: Behaving the same but feeling different. Poster given at

the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Fourth Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,

California.

Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2003). Beyond the boardroom: General effects of high and low

power on the approach and avoidance systems. Poster given at the Society for Personality

and Social Psychology Fourth Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

Smith, P. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2003). Nonconscious effects of power on basic approach and

avoidance tendencies. Talk given at the Graduate Student Conference in Social

Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Smith, P. K., & Chaiken, S. (2002). The effect of mere exposure on implicit and explicit racial

attitudes. Poster given at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Third Annual

Meeting, Savannah, Georgia.

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Park, D. C., Davidson, N. S., Lautenschlager, G., Smith, A. D., Smith, P. K., & Hedden, T.

(1999). Models of visuospatial and verbal memory across the adult life span: Integration

of behavioral and brain data. Talk given at the Old Memories Conference, Cold Spring

Harbor.

Park, D. C., Davidson, N. S., Lautenschlager, G., Smith, A. D., & Smith, P. K. (1998).

Differentiation of visuospatial and verbal working memory and long-term memory across

the life span. Talk given at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Schwarz, N., Park, D. C., Kn uper, B., Davidson, N. S., & Smith, P. K. (1998). Aging, cognition,

and self-reports: Age-dependent context effects and misleading conclusions about age

differences in attitudes and behaviors. Talk given at the Cognitive Aging Conference,

Atlanta, Georgia.

Smith, P. K., Schwarz, N., & Park, D. C. (1998). The influence of aging and question content on

frequency scale effects with self-reported behaviors. Poster given at the Midwestern

Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

Smith, P. K. (1997). Influence of collective and personal self-esteem on stress reactions to racial

discrimination. Talk given at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting,

Chicago, Illinois. Recipient of Psi Chi Program Best Paper Award.

Smith, P. K. (1997). Influence of ethnic identity complexity on reactions to racial discrimination.

Poster given at the American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

INVITED TALKS

Association of Dermatology Managers & Administrators Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA,

March 17, 2012.

Social Psychology Brown Bag, San Diego State University, December 5, 2011.

Management and Organization Seminar, University of Southern California Marshall School of

Business, September 23, 2011.

Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, July 11, 2011.

Women in Science and Technology Conference, San Diego, California, May 14, 2011.

Women in Surgery lecture series, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego

Health System, March 24, 2011.

Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Colloquium, University of California, Los

Angeles Anderson School of Management, February 18, 2011.

Social Psychology Colloquium, University of California, Los Angeles, April 15, 2010.

Friday Afternoon Social Colloquium (FASC), University of California, Santa Barbara, February

19, 2010.

Institute of Personality and Social Research (IPSR) Colloquium, University of California,

Berkeley, November 4, 2009.

Social-Personality Psychology Brown Bag, University of California, Davis, November 2, 2009.

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Seminar, Harvard Business School, October 21,

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2009.

Public Lecture, Bates College, October 19, 2009.

Management Seminar Series, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, September 15,

2009.

Social Psychology Colloquium, Utrecht University, June 18, 2009.

Organisational Behaviour Seminar, London Business School, May 1, 2008.

Social Psychology Colloquium, Tilburg University, February 1, 2008.

Social Psychology Colloquium, Cornell University, January 30, 2007.

Social Psychology Colloquium, Rutgers University, November 2, 2005.

Marketing Behavioral Lab, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, November

1, 2005.

Social Psychology Brown Bag, University of Jena, April 26, 2005.

Social Psychology Colloquium, Tilburg University, December 17, 2004.

MEDIA MENTIONS

Master mind, May 2009, Self, p. 128.

Mensen met macht kunnen goed intu tief n bewust nadenken, December 13, 2008, NRC

Handelsblad, Wetenschap section,

http://www.nrc.nl/wetenschap/article2091612.ece/Mensen_met_macht_kunnen_goed_int

uiuml_tief_en_bewust_nadenken

Why it pays in life to feel powerful, September 1, 2008, Emirates Business 24 7,

http://www.business24-

7.ae/articles/2008/9/pages/09012008_08408b1d30b64a56bf86928ad74137d3.aspx#

Slechte mensen, August 30-31, 2008, NRC Handelsblad, Wetenschap section, p. 8-9.

http://www.intermediair.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1542697

Een machtig gevoel: Wie macht heeft, gaat abstracter denken, August 14, 2008, Intermediair, 33,

p. 33. http://www.intermediair.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1542697

Those given jobs with most power think better, June 16, 2008, San Antonio Express-News.

Those given jobs with most power think better, June 15, 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printedition/2008/06/15/brite.html

Cognitive disenhancement: From he that hath not. May 24-30, 2008. The Economist, 387, p. 94-

95. http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11402754

A new power principle? May 20, 2008. BusinessWeek.com Management IQ blog.

http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2008/05/a_new_power_pr

i.html

Does power corrupt? Absolutely not. May 20, 2008. Time.com.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808140,00.html

Lack of power hurts cognitive functioning. May 19, 2008. United Press International.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Health/2008/05/19/lack_of_power_hurts_cognitive_func

tioning/3080/

Study: A lack of power can impair worker s thinking ability. May 14, 2008. A Better Life (USA

Today health blog). http://blogs.usatoday.com/betterlife/2008/05/does-this-sound.html

In brief: Staying on top. July/August, 2007. Psychology Today.

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-200*****-******.html

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Machtdenken. June 24-25, 2006. NRC Handelsblad.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

MBA

Rady School of Management, UCSD

Organizational Strategy and Human Resource Management

Psychology Masters

Radboud University Nijmegen

Research Training: Experimental Research

New York University

Intermediate Masters Statistics

Undergraduate

Rady School of Management, UCSD

Organizational Leadership

Radboud University Nijmegen

Conscious and Unconscious Processes

Project Social Psychology (research experience course)

Social Cognition

Leiden University

Bachelor Project (research thesis course)

Conflict and Cooperation

Judgment and Influence

University of Amsterdam

Research Practicum

New York University

Lab in Personality and Social Psychology

SERVICE

Administrative

Dissertation Award Committee, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, 2011

Faculty Equity Advisor, University of California, San Diego, 2009-2010

Lab Committee, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2008-2009

Award Committee for Best Paper by a Ph.D. Student, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud

University Nijmegen, 2008

Cubicle Lab Coordinator, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2007-

2009

Vision Committee, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2007-2008

Ethics Committee, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, 2005-2006

Lab Room Coordinator, Social Psychology Program, New York University, 2000-2004

Judge, Psychology Masters Students Research Conference, New York University, 2003

Lab Manager, Dr. John A. Bargh, New York University, 1999-2003

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Treasurer, Graduate Association for Students of Psychology, New York University, 1999-2003

Admissions Committee, Social Psychology Program, New York University, 2000

Organizational

Co-organizer of ASPO Herfstsymposium 2007, The Dark and the Bright Sides of Social Power

(with Nils B. Jostmann, Wilco W. van Dijk, and Diederik Stapel), October 5, 2007, Vrije

Universiteit Amsterdam

Co-organizer of KLI Workshop, What Power Does to People: The Effects of Power on

Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior (with Adam Galinsky, Thomas Schubert, Joris

Lammers, Wilco W. van Dijk, and Nils B. Jostmann), October 3-4, 2007, Vrije

Universiteit Amsterdam

Editorial Board

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2012

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Administrative Science Quarterly

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Cognition and Emotion

Emotion

Experimental Psychology

European Journal of Social Psychology

Group Dynamics

Journal of Consumer Psychology

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Motivation and Emotion

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Psychological Science

Social Cognition

Social Psychological and Personality Science

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Academy of Management

Association for Psychological Science (formerly American Psychological Society)

International Social Cognition Network

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Social Psychology Network

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