Deborah L. Best is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Best is an expert in human development and early childhood. Her interests include: development of gender concepts and stereotypes in the United States and cross-nationally, memory development (mnemonic strategies and metamemory) in young children and older adults, health psychology with adolescents and older adults, and attitudes toward gender, age, race, color, and disability.
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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.
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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.
Research
Best's research has ranged from cognitive development during the preschool and primary school years - including age-related changes in memory and the effects of memory training - to cross-cultural comparisons of public social behaviors of men and women.
Books
Measuring sex stereotypes: A thirty nation study. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1982, Berkeley, CA: Sage Publications).
Sex and psyche: Gender and self viewed cross-culturally. J. E. Williams and D.L. Best, (1990, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications)
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