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Biographical Information
Fiske, S. T. (1992). Citation
and biography, “1991 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology
in the
Public Interest, Early Career,” American Psychologist, 47,
498-501.
Conversation
with Susan T. Fiske," (1993) by E. Krupat, Psychology is social:
Readings and conversations in
social psychology. New York: HarperCollins.
Subject of
"Behind the Scenes" vignette (1993) by D. Myers, Social psychology
(4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fiske, S. T. (1995). From
the still small voice of discontent to the Supreme Court: How I learned to
stop
worrying and love social cognition. In G. G. Branigan & M. R. Merrens
(Eds.), The social psychologists: Research adventures (pp. 19-34).
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Fiske, S. T. (2004). Developing
a program of research. In C. Sansone, C. Morf, & A. Panter (Eds.)
Handbook of
methods in social psychology (pp. 71-90). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fiske, S. T. (2004). Mind
the gap: In praise of informal sources of formal theory. Personality
and Social Psychology Review, 8, 132-137.
Current Bio
Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorate, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). She has just finished a third edition of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2007, each with Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She has written more than nearly 200 articles and chapters and edited many books and journal special issues. Notably, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Schacter and Sternberg) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (with Gilbert and Lindzey). She also wrote a recent upper-level text, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2004).
Currently, she investigates emotional prejudices (pity, contempt, envy, and pride) at cultural, interpersonal, and neural levels. Her expert testimony in discrimination cases was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1989 landmark decision on gender bias. In 1998, she also testified before President Clinton’s Race Initiative Advisory Board, and in 2001-03, she co-authored a National Academy of Science report on Methods for Measuring Discrimination. In 2004, she published a Science article explaining how ordinary people can torture enemy prisoners, through processes of prejudice and social influence.
She won the American Psychological Association’s Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest for anti-discrimination testimony and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ Allport Intergroup Relations Award for ambivalent sexism theory (with Glick), as well as Harvard’s Graduate Centennial Medal. She was elected President of the American Psychological Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her expert witness work has familiarized her with workplace issues in settings from shipyards and assembly lines to international investment firms, and she has served on diversity committees in several nonprofit settings. She grew up in a stable, racially integrated community and still wonders why the rest of the world does not work that way.
Gilbert, D. T., Fiske, S. T., & Lindzey, G. (Eds.) (1998) Handbook of social psychology (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T. (Eds.) (1998). Confronting racism: The problem and the response. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fiske, S. T. (2004). Social beings: A core motives approach to social psychology. New York: Wiley.
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