Lee Jussim

Lee 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, and 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...See more

Lee 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, and 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. See less