Discover the Best Books Written by Susan T. Fiske

Susan T. Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University (Ph.D., Harvard University; honorary doctorates, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universität Basel, Switzerland).

The HUMAN Brand (October 2013) describes how we relate to people, products, and companies along the same two ancient and universal dimensions: warmth (trustworthiness) and competence (capability). Written with Chris Malone, the book shows how we trust companies who show worthy intentions, not their ability to produce short-term shareholder profit.

Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us (2012) is about how we compare ourselves all the time and the problems this makes for us as individuals, partners, students, employees, and citizens. The book describes how the 1% feel toward the 99% (scorn) and how the 99% respond (resentment).

She has written more than 400 academic articles and chapters, as well as edited many books and special journal issues. She has written four editions of Social Cognition (1984, 1991, 2008, 2013, each with Taylor) on how people make sense of each other. She also wrote an upper-level integrative text, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (2004, 2010, 2014), and edited Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom (2008, with Borgida). 

On a regular basis, she edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Schacter and Taylor) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (with Gilbert and Lindzey, 5e, 2010). She most recently edited, with Macrae, the Sage Handbook of Social Cognition (2012), and with Markus, Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction (2012).

Currently, as a social psychologist, she investigates emotional prejudices (pity, contempt, envy, and pride) at cultural, interpersonal, and neural levels, research funded by the Department of Justice and previously funded by the National Science Foundation (1984-1986, 1995-1997), the National Institutes of Health (1986-1995), the Russell Sage Foundation (2008-2010), and the Department of Justice (2013).