Deborah L. Best
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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. [citation needed]
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
- ^ "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 Editorial Board".
- ^ "Historical List of IACCP Officers". Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
- ^ "Sage Publishing".
- ^ "Sage Publishing".
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