Marianne Schmid Mast is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Marianne Schmid Mast was born in Olten (Switzerland) and did her primary school in Däniken, Solothurn.
After receiving her business diploma, she completed her Matura in economics at the École Supérieure de Commerce in Neuchâtel.
She then started medical school at the University of Zurich to discover that her passion is in Psychology.
She was always interested in understanding the interpersonal interactions at work which led her to become a full professor of organizational behavior at the University of Lausanne.
[3] She then continued her research at Northeastern University, Boston,[4] USA, in the Social and Personality Psychology Area, working with Judith A.
In 2006 she became a full professor of Personnel Psychology at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchatel and she was appointed full professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of Lausanne, in August 2014.
One aspect of her research is concerned with how physician communication affects patient outcomes.
Marianne Schmid Mast has created her immersive virtual reality laboratory when she was at the University of Neuchâtel in 2006.
[12] She uses immersive virtual reality for the study of human social interaction behavior and for interpersonal skills training.
[13][14] Muralidhar, S., Nguyen, L. S., Frauendorfer, D., Odobez, J. M., Schmid Mast, M., & Gatica-Perez, D. (2016, October).
Beyond "One Size Fits All": Physician nonverbal adaptability to patients' need for paternalism and its positive consultation outcomes.
Trait-agreeableness influences individual reactions to a physician's affiliative behavior in a simulated bad news delivery.
Studying social interactions through immersive virtual environment technology: Virtues, pitfalls, and future challenges.
Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 869. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00869 Bourquin, C., Stiefel, F., Schmid Mast, M., Bonvin, R., & Berney, A.
Well, you have hepatic metastases: Use of technical language by medical students in simulated patient interviews.
The vertical dimension of social relations and accurate interpersonal perception: A meta-analysis.
doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1008525 Schmid Mast, M., Gatica-Perez, D., Frauendorfer, D., Nguyen, L., & Choudhury, T. (2015) Social sensing for psychology: Automated interpersonal behavior assessment.
Hire me: Computational inference of hirability in employment interviews based on nonverbal behavior.
How interpersonal power affects empathic accuracy: Differential roles of mentalizing versus mirroring?
Finding the right interactional temperature: Do colder patients need more warmth in physician communication style?
When physician expressed uncertainty leads to patient dissatisfaction: A gender study.
Hiring gender-occupation incongruent applicants: The positive impact of recruiter interpersonal sensitivity.
Power increases performance in a social evaluation situation as a result of decreased stress responses.
doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00852.x Lu, H., Frauendorfer, D., Rabbi, M., Schmid Mast, M. S., Chittaranjan, G. T., Campbell, A. T., ... & Choudhury, T. (2012, September).
How mood states affect information processing during facial emotion recognition: An eye tracking study.
Swiss Journal of Psychology, Special Issue: Social Cues in Faces, 70(4), 223–231.
Les médecins hommes et femmes interagissent de manière différente avec leurs patients: Pourquoi s’en préoccuper?
Geschlechtsspezifische Aspekte des Gesprächs zwischen Arzt und Patient (Gender-specific aspects of the physician-patient interaction).
A multi-level approach of evaluating crew resource management training: A laboratory-based study examining communication skills as a function of team congruence.