Dr. Ingrid Petersen

Biography

Dr. Petersen left a tenured position at Uppsala University after her department refused to fund research into 'micro-shame spirals.' At Sagacity, she has pioneered the study of how humans recover from small social failures—the wrong wave, the premature goodbye, the name forgotten mid-introduction. Her book 'The Graceful Exit: A Taxonomy of Social Escape Strategies' is required reading for all incoming students.

Research Interests

• Micro-shame spirals and recovery trajectories
• Social escape strategies and exit protocols
• The phenomenology of the wrong wave
• Name-forgetting compensation behaviors
• Premature goodbye syndrome

Selected Publications

• The Graceful Exit: A Taxonomy of Social Escape Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Micro-Shame Spirals: When Small Social Failures Compound
• The Wrong Wave: Classification and Recovery Patterns in Gestural Misrecognition
• 'Nice to Meet You, Uh...': Linguistic Strategies for Name-Forgetting Concealment
• Goodbye Timing Errors: A Markov Chain Analysis of Premature Farewell Events

Education

• Ph.D., Social Psychology Uppsala University, 2001
• M.Sc., Cognitive Science Lund University, 1996
• B.A., Psychology Stockholm University, 1994