#7 Susan Fiske

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Susan Fiske is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her mother was a civic activist, & her father a personality psychologist, a combination which might help explain her deep interest in the social justice dimensions of intergroup relations. She has developed & empirically researched a number of important concepts & models. The Stereotype Content Model is perhaps her most ambitious, based on the claim that stereotypes universally possess two dimensions: warmth & competence. Fiske’s work has been particularly valuable in combining traditional methodological approaches with a genuinely critical & applied contribution to the social psychology of power, prejudice & discrimination.

further reading

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 psychology82(6), 878.

Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The ambivalent sexism inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of personality and social psychology70(3), 491.

additional links

Home of Fiske’s lab at Princeton

Wiske’s page on social psychology.org

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