William J. Brady is an assistant professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University. His research examines the dynamics of emotion at the social network level and their consequences for group behavior. His recent work studies how human psychology and technology-mediated social contexts interact to shape our emotions and intergroup attitudes. Combining tools of behavioral science and computational social science, his research aims to develop person-centered and design-centered interventions to improve our digital social interactions. He has been selected for the SAGE Emerging Scholar award. Brady earned his B.A. in psychology and philosophy, with distinction, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation where he worked at Yale University.