Deborah L. Best
Deborah L. Best is the William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Education
Best earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and an MA in General Experimental Psychology at Wake Forest University, and a PhD in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Career
Best is a professor of psychology at Wake Forest University and served as the first female Dean of the College at Wake Forest University.Best is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Best is also a former president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Best is the recipient of the 2017 American Psychology Association's - Division 52 - Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award.