Kay Deaux

Kay Deaux
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationDistinguished Professor Emerita
SpouseSam Glucksberg
Awards
  • SPSSI Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (1987)
  • APA Division 35's Carolyn Wood Sherif Award (1987)
  • APA Division 35's Heritage Research Award (1993)
  • APA Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award (2001)
  • SPSSI Kurt Lewin Award (2007)
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology Distinguished Scholar Award (2016)
Academic background
Alma materNorthwestern University, University of Texas at Austin
Academic work
InstitutionsCUNY Graduate Center

Kay Deaux (born 1941) is an American social psychologist known for her pioneering research on immigration and feminist identity.[1] Deaux is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Department of Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).[2] According to Brenda Major, Deaux's work centers on the question of how social categories affect one's psychological makeup, social behavior, and life outcomes, while emphasizing the subjectivity of people's identities and experiences and the larger social context.[3]

Deaux is well known for her work in immigration and gender issues, and her encouragement of social psychologists to study how issues of identity, ethnicity, inter-group contact, attitudes and motivation play out in the immigration process.[4] She is the author of three books related to her research surrounding immigration and feminism: To Be an Immigrant,[5] The Behavior of Women and Men,[6] and Women of Steel: Female Blue-collar Workers in the Steel Industry.[7] She served as senior editor (with Mark Snyder) of the Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology.[8] Other edited volumes include Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Traditions[9] (with Gina Philogène), Social Psychology in the Seventies (with Lawrence Wrightsman), Social Psychology in the Eighties[10] (with Lawrence Wrightsman), and Social Psychology in the '90s[11] (with Francis Dane).

  1. ^ "Kay Deaux | SPSP". spsp.org. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  2. ^ "Kay Deaux". The CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  3. ^ Major, Brenda (2012), "Self, social identity, and stigma: Through Kay Deaux's lens.", Social categories in everyday experience., American Psychological Association, pp. 11–30, doi:10.1037/13488-001, ISBN 978-1-4338-1093-0
  4. ^ Gul, Pelin. "Profile of Kay Deaux". Psychology's Feminist Voices. Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  5. ^ Deaux, Kay (2006). To be an immigrant. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-1-61044-153-7. OCLC 794701253.
  6. ^ Deaux, Kay. (1976). The behavior of women and men. Monterey, Calififornia.: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. ISBN 0-8185-0177-4. OCLC 2164582.
  7. ^ Deaux, Kay. (1983). Women of steel : female blue-collar workers in the basic steel industry. Ullman, Joseph C. New York, New York: Praeger. ISBN 0-03-062008-2. OCLC 9282367.
  8. ^ The Oxford handbook of personality and social psychology. Deaux, Kay,, Snyder, Mark (Second ed.). New York, New York. 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-022483-7. OCLC 1005057450.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ Representations of the social : bridging theoretical traditions. Deaux, Kay., Philogène, Gina, 1961-. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. 2001. ISBN 0-631-21533-6. OCLC 44720785.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ Deaux, Kay. (1984). Social psychology in the 80s. Wrightsman, Lawrence S. (4th ed.). Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. ISBN 0-534-02926-4. OCLC 9488803.
  11. ^ Deaux, Kay. (1993). Social psychology in the '90s. Wrightsman, Lawrence S., Dane, Francis C., 1952-, Deaux, Kay. (6th ed.). Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. ISBN 0-534-10398-7. OCLC 25914136.