Sareena Chadha
I am a social psychologist studying friendship, social networks, and conversation. I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth, working with Dr. Mark Thornton in the SCRAP Lab and Dr. Adam Kleinbaum in the Tuck School of Business. I earned my Ph.D, M.A., and B.A. from the University of Virginia, working with Dr. Adrienne Wood in the Emotion and Behavior Lab.
Across projects, I’ve asked questions like: do we see ourselves the same way others do? Does that gap in perception matter for connection to a social network? What behaviors reliably happen in a conversation between friends, and how do those patterns differ for strangers? To answer questions like these, I use a combination of naturalistic paradigms, intensive longitudinal methods, and network analysis. My academic work is a commitment to fostering, researching, and teaching about one of the most vital forces in daily life—friendship.