Deborah L. Best


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 .
  • ''Sex and Psyche: Gender and Self Viewed Cross-Culturally''