About
Michael W. Kraus is currently at Yale University. In July 2024, he will be a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University and a Morton O. Schapiro Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Michael was trained as a social-personality psychologist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, where he received his B.A. in psychology and sociology and his Ph.D in social psychology. Before arriving at Yale, Michael was a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Francisco and after that, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois.
His research can be found in leading psychology journals such as Psychological Review, Psychological Science, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and has been featured in media outlets like The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and ABC World News. Michael is active on Twitter and all its various new communities (@mwkraus) where he shares research news and comments on politics and social inequality.
Michael lives in New Haven, CT with his spouse and their two children. He grew up in southern California in a little town called Poway. In his free time Michael watches basketball, eats every kind of food, and reads a lot less than he wants to.
