Adam Waytz, Ph.D.

Adam Waytz, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He uses methods from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the causes and consequences of perceiving mental states in other entities and to investigate processes related to social influence, social connection, meaning-making, and ethics. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia University and a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Chicago, and he received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Health to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He is the first person to receive twice the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is also the winner of the SAGE Young Scholar Award and the International Social Cognition Network’s Early Career Award. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.