Deborah L. Best
{{short description|American psychologist}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2004/050404d.html|title=Deborah Best named dean of the College at WFU|access-date=2017-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151217234421/http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2004/050404d.html|archive-date=2015-12-17|url-status=dead}}
Best is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.{{Cite web|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal-of-cross-cultural-psychology/journal200947|title=Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology|date=October 28, 2015|website=SAGE Publications Inc}} Best is also a former president{{Cite web|url=http://iaccp.org/node/148|title=Historical List of IACCP Officers|access-date=2017-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211160542/http://iaccp.org/node/148|archive-date=2017-02-11|url-status=dead}} 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.[https://www.apa.org/about/awards/denmark-reuder52?tab=4 The Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award]
Books
- Measuring Sex Stereotypes: A Thirty-Nation Study (with John E. Williams) (1982, Sage Publications; {{isbn|0803918372}}).{{Cite web|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/measuring-sex-stereotypes/book3165|title=Measuring Sex Stereotypes|date=March 3, 2021|website=SAGE Publications Inc}}
- Sex and Psyche: Gender and Self Viewed Cross-Culturally (with John E. Williams) (1990, Sage Publications; {{isbn|0803937695}}){{Cite web|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sex-and-psyche/book3027|title=Sex and Psyche|date=March 4, 2021|website=SAGE Publications Inc}}
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