Susan Fiske
Department of Psychology
Green Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
U.S.A.
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Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. The research begins with the premise that people easily categorize other people, especially based on race, gender, and age. Going beyond such categories, to learn about the individual person, requires motivation. Social relationships supply one form of motivation to individuate, and the work shows that being on the same team or depending on another person makes people go beyond stereotypes. Conversely, people in power are less motivated to go beyond their stereotypes. Laboratory studies examine how a variety of relationships affect people forming impressions of others.
Society's cultural stereotypes and prejudice also depend on relationships of power and interdependence. Group status and competition affect how groups are (dis)liked and (dis)respected. Surveys examine the content of group stereotypes based on race, gender, age, (dis)ability, income, and more, finding patterns in the ways that society views various groups.
Susan Fiske was previously Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an assistant through associate professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. She received an honorary doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1995. She has authored over 175 journal articles and book chapters; she has edited 7 books and journal special issues. Her graduate text with Shelley Taylor, Social Cognition (1984; 2nd ed., 1991), defined the sub-field of how people think about and make sense of other people. Her latest book, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (Wiley, 2004), surveys the field from the perspective of socially adaptive motives for belonging, understanding, controlling, enhancing self, and trusting others.
Her research has sparked opportunities for real-world impact. Her expert testimony in discrimination cases includes some cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1989 landmark case on gender bias. In 1998, she also testified before President Clinton's Race Initiative Advisory Board, and in 2001-03, she co-authored a National Academy of Science report on Methods for Measuring Discrimination. Fiske won the 1991 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Early Career, in part for the expert testimony. Fiske also won, with Peter Glick, the 1995 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for work on ambivalent sexism. She won, with Shelley Taylor, the 2003 Thomas Ostrom Award from the Person Memory Interest Group for work in social cognition.
Fiske was elected President of the American Psychological Society for 2002-2003. She was 1994 President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and served on the executive committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. As part of her effort to keep up with the field she loves, she edits, with Daniel Gilbert and Gardner Lindzey, the Handbook of Social Psychology (4th ed.,1998) and with Daniel Schacter and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, the Annual Review of Psychology (Vols. 51-60, 2000-09). She has served on the boards of Scientific Affairs for the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, Annual Reviews Inc., Federation for Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Social Science Research Council, and the Common School in Amherst.
On campus, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in social psychology, social cognition, and racism, and has chaired both departmental and college personnel committees, as well as diversity and multiculturalism committees. She lives in Princeton, Philadelphia, and Vermont, with her sociologist husband, daughter, and step-daughter, with frequent visits from her grown step-son. She grew up in a stable, racially integrated neighborhood and still wonders why more of the world isn't like that.
 Books:
- Borgida, E., & Fiske, S. T. (Eds.) (in press). Psychological science in the courtroom: Beyond common knowledge. London: Blackwell.
 Fiske, S. T. (2004). Social beings: A core motives approach to social psychology. New York: Wiley.
- Fiske, S. T., Schacter, D. L., & Kazdin, A. (Eds.). (2005-2010). Annual Review of Psychology (volumes 56-60). Palo Alto, California: Annual Review, Inc.
- Fiske, S. T., & Taylor, S. E. (1991). Social cognition (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (3rd ed., in press, 2007)
- Gilbert, D. T., Fiske, S. T., & Lindzey, G. (Eds.). (1998). The handbook of social psychology (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (5th ed., in preparation)
Journal Articles:
- Clausell, E., & Fiske, S. T. (2005). When do the parts add up to the whole? Ambivalent stereotype content for gay male subgroups. Social Cognition, 23, 157-176.
- Cuddy, A. J. C., Fiske, S. T., & Glick, P. (in press). The BIAS map: Behaviors from intergroup affect and stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Fiske, S. T. (2002). What we know about bias and intergroup conflict, problem of the century. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 123-128.
- Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Glick, P. (in press). Universal dimensions of social perception: Warmth, then competence. Trends in Cognitive Science.
- Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A. J., Glick, P., & Xu, J. (2002). A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 878-902.
- Fiske, S. T., Harris, L. T., & Cuddy, A. J. C. (2004). Policy Forum: Why ordinary people torture enemy prisoners. Science, 306, 1482-1483.
- Glick, P., & Fiske, S. T. (1996). The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 491-512. [Winner, Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1995]
- Harris, L. T., & Fiske, S. T. (2006). Dehumanizing the lowest of the low: Neuro-imaging responses to extreme outgroups. Psychological Science, 17, 847-853.
- Lee, T. L., & Fiske, S. T. (2006). Not an outgroup, but not yet an ingroup: Immigrants in the stereotype content model. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 751-768.
- Lin, M. H., Kwan, V. S. Y., Cheung, A., & Fiske, S. T. (2005). Stereotype content model explains prejudice for an envied outgroup: Scale of Anti-Asian American Stereotypes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 34-47.
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