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Steven Fein Williams College, USA

Steven Fein is Professor of Psychology at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Born

and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, he received his AB from Princeton University and his PhD in

social psychology from the University of Michigan. He has been teaching at Williams College since

1991, with time spent teaching at Stanford University in 1999. His edited books include Emotion:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Readings in Social Psychology: The Art and Science of Research, and

Motivated Social Perception: The Ontario Symposium. He has served on the executive committee of the

Society of Personality and Social Psychology and as the social and personality psychology representative

at the American Psychological Association. His research interests concern stereotyping and prejudice,

suspicion and attributional processes, social influence, and self-affirmation theory.