--- title: "3 Susan T. Fiske Quotes - Famous Psychologist" description: "American psychologist... | Susan Tufts Fiske is an American psychologist who served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-susan-t-fiske-86477.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Susan T. Fiske](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-susan-t-fiske-86477.jpg) # Susan T. Fiske (1952) Psychologist **3** quotes in **19** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Susan T. Fiske is a psychologist. ## Quick Facts About Susan T. Fiske Born August 19, 1952 Profession Psychologist ## About Susan T. Fiske American psychologist... \| Susan Tufts Fiske is an American psychologist who served as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University until her retirement in 2023. She is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, and prejud ## Quotes by Susan T. Fiske > [“Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/social-class-positioning-influences-all-aspects-of-everyday/) [Susan T. Fiske](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-t-fiske/) [Classic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/susan-t-fiske-86477_classic_social-class-positioning-influences-all_969165.jpg) > [“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/the-middle-class-standard-of-the-independent-self-has-increasingly/) [Susan T. Fiske](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-t-fiske/) [American society](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-society/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/susan-t-fiske-86477_american-society_the-middle-class-standard-of-the-indepen_2483163.jpg) > [“To attain, and to keep, a professional-managerial job requires class-specific human capital. Developing and displaying that capital is a central preoccupation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-t-fiske/to-attain-and-to-keep-a-professional-managerial-job-requires-class/) [Susan T. Fiske](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-t-fiske/) [Cultural-capital](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cultural-capital-40430/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bc/susan-t-fiske-86477_cultural-capital_to-attain-and-to-keep-a-professional-man_2768182.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-t-fiske/#itemlist", "name": "Susan T. 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