Deborah L. Best

Deborah L. Best is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Education

Best earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and an MA in General Experimental Psychology at Wake Forest University, and a PhD in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Career

Best is a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University and served as the first female Dean of the College at Wake Forest University. ^[1]

Best is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. ^[2] Best is also a former president ^[3] of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Best is the recipient of the 2017 American Psychology Association's - Division 52 - Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award. ^[4]

Books

• Measuring Sex Stereotypes: A Thirty-Nation Study (with John E. Williams) (1982, Sage Publications; ISBN   0803918372). ^[5]
• Sex and Psyche: Gender and Self Viewed Cross-Culturally (with John E. Williams) (1990, Sage Publications; ISBN   0803937695) ^[6]

References

1. "Deborah Best named dean of the College at WFU". Archived from the original on 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
2. "Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology". SAGE Publications Inc. October 28, 2015.
3. "Historical List of IACCP Officers". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
4. The Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award
5. "Measuring Sex Stereotypes". SAGE Publications Inc. March 3, 2021.
6. "Sex and Psyche". SAGE Publications Inc. March 4, 2021.