Deborah L. Best is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University (WFU) is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The R ...

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 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

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'' (with John E. Williams) (1982,

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; ). *''Sex and Psyche: Gender and Self Viewed Cross-Culturally'' (with John E. Williams) (1990,

; )

References

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