Deborah L. Best Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Deborah Best named dean of the College at WFU. 2017-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20151217234421/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2004/050404d.html. 2015-12-17. dead.
2. Web site: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. October 28, 2015. SAGE Publications Inc.
3. Web site: Historical List of IACCP Officers. 2017-02-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20170211160542/http://iaccp.org/node/148. 2017-02-11. dead.
4. https://www.apa.org/about/awards/denmark-reuder52?tab=4 The Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award
5. Web site: Measuring Sex Stereotypes. March 3, 2021. SAGE Publications Inc.
6. Web site: Sex and Psyche. March 4, 2021. SAGE Publications Inc.