Linda Dyer

Dr. Linda Dyer

Linda Dyer obtained her PhD at Carnegie-Mellon University, and is Professor in the Department of Management. Linda Dyer studies the establishment of trusting relationships between professional business advisors and the owners of small firms, including ethnic businesses. Her research draws on diverse fields including individual cognition, learning and cognitive biases, the interplay between emotions and cognition, and the organizational impact of demographic diversity, specifically in ethnicity and gender. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Small Business Management and the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, as well as in various book chapters.