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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2017 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2010 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2009 - Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Susan T. Fiske is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with significant contributions within subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, and Safety Research.

The scientist's scholarly work frequently addresses topics including Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Computational and Text Analysis Methods, and Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion.

Publication venues where Susan T. Fiske has contributed regularly include the Annual Review of Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Management Proceedings, and iScience.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Susan T. Fiske are as follows:

  • Navigating the social world: Toward an integrated framework for evaluating self, individuals, and groups. (2020) - Psychological Review
  • Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society (2021) - Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • Research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science (2020) - British Journal of Psychology
  • A systematic review of the ambivalent sexism literature: Hostile sexism protects men's power; benevolent sexism guards traditional gender roles. (2023) - Psychological Bulletin
  • Social perception of brands: Warmth and competence define images of both brands and social groups (2021) - Consumer Psychology Review

Frequent collaborators include Xuechunzi Bai, Gandalf Nicolás, Alex Koch, Vincent Yzerbyt, and Daniel L. Schacter. The collaboration counts with these co-authors range from 7 to 13 joint publications.

The scientist has received numerous awards recognizing their contributions, including:

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019)
  • James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2017)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2011)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2010)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009)
  • Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2009)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA) (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1988)

Best Publications

  • Social Cognition, from Brains to Culture

    Susan T. Fiske;Shelley E. Taylor

  • A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition.

    Susan Tufts Fiske;Amy J.C. Cuddy;Peter Glick;Jun Xu

  • Handbook of social psychology

    Susan T. Fiske;Daniel T. Gilbert;Gardner Lindzey

  • The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism.

    Peter Glick;Susan Tufts Fiske

  • Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence

    Susan Tufts Fiske;Amy J.C. Cuddy;Peter Glick

  • A Continuum of Impression Formation, from Category-Based to Individuating Processes: Influences of Information and Motivation on Attention and Interpretation

    Susan T. Fiske;Steven L. Neuberg

  • Social cognition, 2nd ed.

    Susan T. Fiske;Shelley E. Taylor

  • Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination.

    Susan T. Fiske

  • Warmth and Competence As Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map

    Amy J.C. Cuddy;Susan Tufts Fiske;Peter Glick

  • Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping

    Susan T. Fiske

  • An ambivalent alliance. Hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality.

    Peter Glick;Susan T. Fiske

  • The BIAS map: behaviors from intergroup affect and stereotypes.

    Amy J. C. Cuddy;Susan T. Fiske;Peter Glick

  • Attention and weight in person perception: The impact of negative and extreme behavior.

    Susan Tufts Fiske

  • Salience, Attention, and Attribution: Top of the Head Phenomena

    Shelley E. Taylor;Susan T. Fiske

  • Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy: Hostile and benevolent sexism across cultures

    Peter Glick;Susan T. Fiske;Antonio Mladinic;José L. Saiz

  • Categorical and contextual bases of person memory and stereotyping.

    Shelley E. Taylor;Susan T. Fiske;Nancy L. Etcoff;Audrey J. Ruderman

  • Social Beings: Core Motives in Social Psychology

    Susan T. Fiske

  • Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low: Neuroimaging Responses to Extreme Out-Groups

    Lasana T. Harris;Susan T. Fiske

  • Category-based versus piecemeal-based affective responses: Developments in schema-triggered affect.

    Susan T. Fiske;Mark A. Pavelchak

  • Stereotype content model across cultures: towards universal similarities and some differences.

    Amy J. C. Cuddy;Susan T. Fiske;Virginia S. Y. Kwan;Peter Glick

  • Affective and semantic components in political person perception.

    Robert P. Abelson;Donald R. Kinder;Mark D. Peters;Susan T. Fiske

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
Peter Glick
Peter Glick Lawrence University
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Amy J. C. Cuddy
Amy J. C. Cuddy Harvard University
Eugene Borgida
Eugene Borgida University of Minnesota
Mina Cikara
Mina Cikara Harvard University
Daniel L. Schacter
Daniel L. Schacter Harvard University
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Don Operario
Don Operario Emory University
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain

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