Virginia Stewart Kay
Biography:
Virginia received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2000. She spent several years working as a Latin American economic analyst for the intelligence community before shifting her focus to the collection of counterterrorism and counterproliferation information. Her interest in human motivations and decision making under stressful situations led her to trade civil service for the study of psychology and organizational behavior. Virginia's past research topics include risk taking under duress, the relationship between emotional state and helping behaviors, and cognitive bias reduction techniques. Virginia's current projects include a field survey of the leadership of dysfunctional teams and experiments to study the accuracy of information that job applicants chose to provide, (mis-)attributions related to excuse making, and optimal group information sharing strategies.
Contact Information:
office phone: (919) 962-3163
email: vsk@unc.edu
address:
Kenan-Flagler Business School
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
McColl Building, Campus Box 3490
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490