Lee JussimLee Jussim is distinguished professor
and chair of the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He has published
over 100 articles and chapters and six books. His scholarship addresses
stereotypes, prejudice, expectancy effects, ad accuracy; how dysfunctional
academic norms in everything from peer review to methods to political biases
threaten the validity of much work produced by the social sciences; and, more
recently, radicalization in academia and wider society. His book, Social
Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling
Prophecy, contested the psychological canon that social perception was
mostly bias and received the American Publishers Award for best book in psychology
in 2012. He is a founding member of the Heterodox Academy and the Academic
Freedom Alliance. His Psychology Today
blog, Rabble Rouser, has been viewed over a million times.