Deborah L. Best

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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. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1982, Berkeley, CA: Sage Publications).[5]

Sex and psyche: Gender and self viewed cross-culturally. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1990, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications)[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.
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