Margaret Clark (psychologist)

Margaret Sydnor Clark is an American psychologist.
Clark graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1973, and obtained a doctorate at the University of Maryland in 1977. She joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University upon completing her studies, and taught there until moving to Yale University in 2005. At Carnegie Mellon she served as chair of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for a year, received the Elliot Dunlop Smith Award for excellence in teaching in that college and received the Ryan Award for excellence in teaching across all colleges at the University. At Yale, Clark has served first as master, a position subsequently renamed as head, of Trumbull College since 2013, and was named John M. Musser Professor of Psychology in 2015. She has served as the president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. In 2015, Clark was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.