Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the Psychology Department of Swarthmore College, with affiliations in the Peace & Conflict Studies program. His research spans self-regulation, negotiation, and social perception, focusing on psychological barriers to conflict resolution, cognitive load effects, and "naive realism."

• Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University (1996)
• A.B. in Biology from Harvard University (1990)

His research explores self-regulation under limited attention, negotiation dynamics, and social perception biases. Key contributions include studies on attentional myopia, temporal perception anomalies, and the role of negative acknowledgment in conflict resolution.

His work has been published in top journals like Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Health Psychology. Articles often intersect fields like Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Economics, with subtopics ranging from addiction neuroscience to decision-making biases.

• Lang Faculty Fellowship (Swarthmore, 2000-2001)
• APA Dissertation Award (1995)
• Best Paper Award (IACM, 1994)
• Fellow at Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (1992-1993)

He has received significant grants, including multiple R01 awards from NHLBI and NIMH for research on attention and self-regulation, and has served on professional committees such as the NSF Grant Review Panel and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.