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.
