Phoebe C. Ellsworth is an American social psychologist and professor at the University of Michigan, holding dual appointments at the Psychology Department and in the Law School.
from Radcliffe College in 1966 and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University in 1970, after graduating from Hopkins School in New Haven in 1961.
More specifically, she has done research on jury behavior and decision making, public opinion and the death penalty, and eyewitness identification.
As a graduate student, she worked with Paul Ekman and Wallace Friesen to develop the photographs that were used in their research comparing perceptions of emotional faces across cultures.
In particular, she has taken a look at the cultural differences in perceiving facial emotions (Masuda, Ellsworth, Mesquita, Leu, Tanida, and Van de Veerdonk, 2008).