Public Biography
Dr. Hadley Vermeer-Schultz is the director of the Wexler Institute for Implicit Cognition Studies, a position she has held since 2018. A social psychologist by training, Dr. Vermeer-Schultz received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 with a dissertation on the temporal dynamics of categorical preference, and held faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Northwestern before being recruited to the Wexler Institute in 2012 as its associate director of methodology.
Dr. Vermeer-Schultz is the author of three books and more than eighty peer-reviewed articles in the cognitive and social psychological literature, including the monograph Toward a Predictive Architecture of Attitudinal Latency (Princeton University Press, 2019), which has been adopted as a textbook in graduate programs in seventeen countries and which her detractors have characterized, in print, as “the most influential work of social science of the past two decades whose principal findings cannot be replicated.” She is a frequent expert witness in federal employment discrimination proceedings and has consulted, through the Wexler Institute’s licensing arm, with the diversity offices of more than two hundred Fortune 500 corporations, the United States Department of Justice, and four foreign governments.
She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Career Award (2022), an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan University (2024), and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2016). She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Cognition and Emotion, and is a past president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Dr. Vermeer-Schultz lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, the architectural historian Reinhard Vermeer-Schultz, and their two children. She is an accomplished cellist and serves on the board of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Selected Publications
- Toward a Predictive Architecture of Attitudinal Latency (Princeton, 2019)
- Disposition Beneath Speech: Studies in the Millisecond Register (with M. Halbritter, Institute Press, 2021)
- “The Replication Conversation and Its Discontents,” Perspectives on Psychological Science (2023)