Susan Fiske

Susan Tufts Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, and prejudice.[1] She has authored over 250 publications and has written several books, including her 2010 work Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology. Social Cognition, a graduate level text she wrote with her dissertation advisor, Shelley Taylor, defined the now-popular subfield of social cognition; a new version was published in 2008. She also edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Daniel Schacter & Shelley Taylor) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (with Daniel Gilbert & the late Gardner Lindzey). Her most recent book is "Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us,"[2] which describes how people constantly compare themselves to others, with toxic effects on their relationships at home, at work, in school, and in the world.[3]

Fiske received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and received its centennial medal in 2004.[4] She has honorary degrees from the University of Leiden in 2009 and the Université catholique de Louvain in 1995. Her four most well-known contributions to the field are the Continuum Model of Impression Formation[5], the Power-As-Control Theory[6], Ambivalent Sexism Theory[7], and the Stereotype Content Model[8]. She is also known for the term cognitive miser, coined with her graduate advisor Shelley Taylor, referring to individuals' tendencies to use cognitive shortcuts and heuristics.[9] She popularized the phrase 'thinking is for doing' (paraphrased from William James, "My thinking is first and last and always for my doing").[10]

Fiske was the first social psychologist to testify in gender discrimination cases, including the landmark Hopkins v Price Waterhouse, ultimately heard by the Supreme Court.[11] This led to continuing interest in the use of psychological science in legal contexts.[12]

She is a past President of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. She was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, the Association for Psychological Science William James Fellow Award, and Princeton University Graduate School Mentoring Award.[13] Fiske is married to sociologist Douglas Massey.

Further reading

Brannigan, G G & Merrens, M R (1994). The Social Psychologists: Research Adventures. McGraw-Hill.

References

  1. ^ Capriccioso, Rob (13 January 2006). "Gone, but Not Forgotten". Inside Higher Ed. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/13/princeton. Retrieved 11 October 2010. 
  2. ^ Fiske, S. T. (2011). Envy up, scorn down: How status divides us. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  3. ^ Science, 2011, 333, 289-90.
  4. ^ http://www.princeton.edu/~fiskelab/
  5. ^ Fiske, S. T., & Neuberg, S. L. (1990). A continuum model of impression formation, from category-based to individuating processes: Influence of formation and motivation on attention and interpretation. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 23, pp. 1-74). New York: Academic Press.
  6. ^ Fiske, S. T. (1993). Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping. American Psychologist, 48, 621-628.
  7. ^ Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 491-512.
  8. ^ Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J., Glick, P., & Xu, J. (2002). A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 878-902.
  9. ^ Brannigan, G. G., & Merrens, M. R. (Eds.) (2005). The social psychologists: Research adventures. New York: McGraw Hill.
  10. ^ Fiske, S. T. (1992). Thinking is for doing: Portraits of social cognition from daguerreotype to laserphoto. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 877-889. Fiske, S. T. (1993). Social cognition and social perception. In M. R. Rosenzweig & L. W. Porter (Eds.), Annual review of psychology (Vol. 44, pp. 155-194). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc.
  11. ^ Fiske, S. T., Bersoff, D. N., Borgida, E., Deaux, K., & Heilman, M. E. (1991). Social science research on trial: The use of sex stereotyping research in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. American Psychologist, 46, 1049-1060.
  12. ^ Borgida, E., & Fiske, S. T. (Eds.) (2008). Beyond common sense: Psychological science in the courtroom. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
  13. ^ http://www.princeton.edu/~fiskelab/

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