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Anna Clark is a post-doctoral research fellow at INSEAD.
Anna’s research examines communication and language use in interpersonal and small group settings. A central focus is how everyday conversations, often seemingly mundane and trivial, shape organizational and social cultures. Anna’s research has shown how communicators make assumptions about the ideas, information and beliefs held by their audience and how these assumptions influence the content and the shape of their communication—that is, what we say and how we say it. In her work on the communication of social stereotypes, Anna has shown how communicators tend to bias their messages in a stereotype consistent and confirming way; a bias which appears due to communicators believing that using culturally shared stereotypes within their in-group is a way of enhancing social connection in interpersonal relationships—a perception which contributes to the persistence of stereotypes through social networks. In other work Anna has examined how features of the social context influence message shape or level of construal – that is whether communicators frame their message in a way that focuses on the big picture or in terms of concrete details and procedures.
Anna has published her research in peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and in chapters of a number of edited books dedicated to the subject of stereotype maintenance and change.
Anna completed a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Hons) at La Trobe University, Australia and obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Before joining INSEAD in 2008, Anna was a post-doctoral fellow at the Communication, Social Cognition and Language Research Group at the VU University Amsterdam.
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