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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.
Best is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Best is also a former president 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.
Books
Measuring sex stereotypes: A thirty nation study. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1982, Berkeley, CA: Sage Publications).
Sex and psyche: Gender and self viewed cross-culturally. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1990, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications)
References
- "Deborah Best named dean of the College at WFU". Archived from the original on 2015-12-17. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- "Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology". SAGE Publications Inc. October 28, 2015.
- "Historical List of IACCP Officers". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- The Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award
- "Measuring Sex Stereotypes". SAGE Publications Inc. March 3, 2021.
- "Sex and Psyche". SAGE Publications Inc. March 4, 2021.