Lee Jussim | Britannica

Lee Jussim

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Social Psychology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the author of Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (1)

self-fulfilling prophecy

Self-fulfilling prophecy, process through which an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation. In a self-fulfilling prophecy an individual’s expectations about another person or entity eventually result in the other person or entity acting in ways that confirm the expectations. A…

Publications (2)

Social Perception and Social Reality Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (April 2012)

By Lee Jussim

Social Perception and Social Reality contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling. Jussim reviews a wealth of real world, survey, and experimental data collected over the last century to show that in fact, social psychological research consistently demonstrates that biases and self-fulfilling prophecies are generally weak, fragile, and fleeting. Furthermore, research in...

Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (2010)

By John M Levine, Michael A. Hogg

Over the past 75 years there has been a tremendous amount of theoretical and empirical research on group processes and intergroup relations by scholars in various disciplines. The Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations is a reflection of the growing integration of what were formerly two distinct approaches. With approximately 300 entries, the two volumes of this encyclopedia cover concepts ranging from conformity to diversity and from small group interaction to intergroup...