Deborah L. Best

Deborah L. Best is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Best is an expert in human development and early childhood.

Her interests include: development of gender concepts and stereotypes in the United States and cross-nationally, memory development (mnemonic strategies and metamemory) in young children and older adults, health psychology with adolescents and older adults, and attitudes toward gender, age, race, color, and disability.

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. This APA Division 52 award recognizes and encourages outstanding psychologists who have made international contributions to further the understanding of women and/or gender.

Research

Best's research has ranged from cognitive development during the preschool and primary school years – including age-related changes in memory and the effects of memory training – to cross-cultural comparisons of public social behaviors of men and women.

Books

Measuring sex stereotypes: A thirty nation study. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1982, Berkeley, CA: Sage Publications).[4]

Sex and psyche: Gender and self viewed cross-culturally. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1990, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications)[5]

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 Editorial Board".
  3. "Historical List of IACCP Officers". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  4. "Sage Publishing".
  5. "Sage Publishing".
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