Professor Susan Fiske is a highly respected social psychologist of international standing. She is best known for her research into social cognition, bias, stereotypes and prejudice. In particular, her work addresses how stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, informed by things like cooperation, competition and power.

Professor Fiske is the Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her books include Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture and Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us.

Professor Fiske is responsible for several immensely influential psychological theories and models, such as the stereotype content model, the ambivalent sexism inventory and power-as-control theory.

Professor Fiske has won many prestigious awards throughout her illustrious career, including the William James Fellow Award, the Donald Campbell Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and several honorary doctorates. In 2014 she was named the 22nd most eminent researcher in modern psychology by the journal Archives of Scientific Psychology.