Susan Tufts Fiske was born on August 19,1952 and is an American psychologist who served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University.
26 Facts About Susan Fiske
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Susan Fiske is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, and prejudice.
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Susan Fiske comes from a family of psychologists and social activists.
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Susan Fiske's father, Donald W Fiske, was an influential psychologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago.
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Susan Fiske's mother, Barbara Page Fiske, was a civic leader in Chicago.
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Susan Fiske's brother, Alan Page Fiske, is an anthropologist at UCLA.
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Susan Fiske received her PhD from Harvard University in 1978, for her thesis titled Attention and the Weighting of Behavior in Person Perception.
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Susan Fiske felt that significant knowledge could be attained by combining the fields.
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Susan Fiske gave expert testimony in the landmark case, Price Waterhouse v Hopkins which was eventually heard by the Supreme Court of the United States, making her the first social psychologist to testify in a gender discrimination case.
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Susan Fiske examined gender differences in social psychologists' publication rates and citations within the influential psychology journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Susan Fiske worked with Peter Glick and Amy Cuddy to develop the Stereotype Content Model.
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Susan Fiske has been involved in the field of social cognitive neuroscience.
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Susan Fiske has authored over 400 publications and has written several books, including her 2010 work Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology and Social Cognition, a graduate level text that defined the now-popular subfield of social cognition.
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Susan Fiske has edited the Annual Review of Psychology and the Handbook of Social Psychology.
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Susan Fiske serves on the Board of Directors of Annual Reviews.
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Susan Fiske is known for the term cognitive miser, coined with her graduate adviser Shelley E Taylor, referring to individuals' tendencies to use cognitive shortcuts and heuristics.
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Columbia University statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman, "well-respected among the researchers driving the replication debate", responded to Susan Fiske, saying that she had found herself willing to tolerate the "dead paradigm" of faulty statistics and had refused to retract publications even when errors were pointed out.
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Susan Fiske added that during her tenure as editor a number of papers edited by her were found to be based on extremely weak statistics; one of Fiske's own published papers had a major statistical error and "impossible" conclusions.
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Susan Fiske became an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
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In 2011, Susan Fiske was elected into the Fellowship of the British Academy.
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Susan Fiske received numerous awards in 2009, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Association for Psychological Science William James Fellow Award, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Donald Campbell Award.
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In 2008, Susan Fiske received the Staats Award for Unifying Psychology, from the American Psychological Association.
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Susan Fiske was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Granada in 2017, University of Basel in 2013, the University of Leiden in 2009 and the Universite catholique de Louvain in 1995.
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Susan Fiske served as past president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Division 8 of the American Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the American Psychological Society.
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Susan Fiske is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Susan Fiske was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.