Faculty


Wendy Wood

Provost Professor of Psychology and Business
Vice Dean for Social Sciences

Contact Information
E-mail: wendy.wood@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2203
Office: SGM 805

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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
 

Biographical Sketch

Education

  • B.S. Psychology, University of Illinois, 1975
  • Ph.D. Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts, 1980

  • Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

    Tenure Track Appointments
    • Provost Professor of Psychology and Business, University of Southern California, 08/15/2009-  
    • James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, 2004-2009  

    Other Employment
    • Helen Putnam Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2007-2008   

    Funded Research


    Gifts and Endowments
    • Establishing habits for new products, (Procter & Gamble), $125,000, 2010-2011   

    Other Funded Research
    • National Science Foundation, SEP Program, Creating an Energy Literate Society of Humans, Buildings, And Agents for Sustainable Energy Management, $1,550,000, 09/01/2012-08/31/2015  

    Publications


    Book Chapter
    • Wood, W., Eagly, A. H. (2010). Gender. 5 Handbook of Social PsychologyWiley.

    Journal Article
    • Wood, W., Ridgeway, C. (2010). Gender: An interdisciplinary perspective. Social Psychology Quarterly. Vol. 73, pp. 334-339.
    • Aldrich, J., Montgomery, J., Wood, W. (2010). Turnout as a habit. Political Behavior.
    • Leander, N. P., Chartrand, T., Wood, W. (2010). Mind your mannerisms: Eliciting stereotype conformity through behavioral mimicry. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
    • Quinn, J. M., Pascoe, A. M., Neal, D. T., Wood, W. (2010). Can't Help Yourself? Monitor Those Bad Habits. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin/Sage. Vol. 36, pp. 499-511.
    • Hall, D., Matz, D., Wood, W. (2010). Why don't we practice what we preach? A meta-analytic review of religious racism. Personality and Social Psychology Review/Sage. Vol. 14, pp. 126-139.
    • Rothman, A. J., Sheeran, P., Wood, W. (2009). Reflective and automatic processes in the initiation and maintenance of food choices. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Vol. 38, pp. S4-S17.
    • Wood, W., Neal, D. T. (2009). The Habitual Consumer. Journal of Consumer Psychology/Elsevier. (19), pp. 579-592.

    Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works

    • article in refereed journal, Neal, D., Wood, W., Wu, M., & Kurlander, D. The Pull of the Past: When Do Habits Persist Despite Conflict with Motives , 2010-2011   
    • article in refereed journal, Neal, D., Wood, W., Wu, M., & Kurlander, D. The Pull of the Past: When Do Habits Persist Despite Conflict with Motives , 2010-2011   

    Honors and Awards

    • Best Paper of the Year in Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2011-2012   

    Service to the University

    Administrative Appointments
    • Vice Dean for Social Sciences, 08/16/2012-06/30/2015  


  • Department of Psychology
  • University of Southern California
  • SGM 501
  • 3620 South McClintock Ave.
  • Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061