Lee Jussim

Lee J. Jussim (born December 2, 1955) is an American social psychologist.[2][3] He leads the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University.[4] He is known for his scholarly work on social perception and stereotypes.

Lee Jussim
Born (1955-12-02) December 2, 1955
New York City, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Known forStereotype accuracy
Awards1997 Award for Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association[1]
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
InstitutionsRutgers University
ThesisInterpersonal expectations in social interaction: Self-fulfilling prophecies, confirmatory biases, and accuracy (1987)

Early life and education

When Jussim was 5 years old, his family moved into a Brooklyn-area public housing where they lived until he was 12. When he was 13, his family moved to Levittown, Long Island, and his mother died of cancer shortly after.[2]

Jussim dropped out of college shortly before he met Lisa Baum whom he would later marry in 1975. They have three children together. Jussim enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1979, where he majored in psychology. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan under the supervision of professor Lerita Coleman.[2] He graduated with a doctorate in social psychology in 1987 and entered a teaching position at Rutgers University that same year.[5][6]

Career

Jussim runs the Social Perception Lab at Rutgers University, Livingston Campus. The lab studies how people perceive, think about, and judge others.[4] He is a researcher in the fields of person perception, stereotype accuracy and bias and has been integral in the initiative for viewpoint diversity which advocates to correct the inaccuracies in the field of social psychology research.[7] In support of the latter, he helped found the Heterodox Academy, a collection of academics concerned with what they see as narrowing of political viewpoints on college campuses, itself having ties to conservative think tank The Koch Foundation.[8] Dr. Jussim also runs Rabble Rouser, a blog that identifies errors in social psychology research and practice, suggests ways to improve it and discusses societal implications.[9]

He has published and spoken extensively on scientific integrity and distortions in science motivated by politics, stereotype accuracy, prejudice, bias, self-fulfilling prophecy, and social constructionism. His works have won professional wards: his 2012 book Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy won an American Association of Publishers' Prize for best book in psychology,[10] and his 1991 book Social Belief and Social Reality: A Reflection-Construction Model received the Gordon Allport Prize for Research in Intergroup Relations.[11] During his recent 2013–2014 sabbatical, he worked with colleagues at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in the Behavioral Sciences and co-founded Stanford’s Best Practices in Science group.[12]

References
  1. "Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology". American Psychologist. 52 (4): 318–329. 1997. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.52.4.318.
  2. Jussim, Lee (July 19, 2016). "Lee Jussim". Rutgers University. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  3. "Lee Jussim". Library of Congress.
  4. Grace, Patrick. "Dr. Lee Jussim". www.rci.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. "Vita". Rutgers University. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  6. "Lee Jussim Ph.D. – Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  7. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/papers.html
  8. "Home". HeterodoxAcademy.org. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  9. "Rabble Rouser". Psychology Today. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  10. Grace, Patrick. "Lee Jussim, Selected Papers". www.rci.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  11. Gordon Allport Prize for Research in Intergroup Relations
  12. "Dr. Lee Jussim's Bio 12". www.rci.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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