Hazel Markus has been a professor of psychology at Stanford University since 1994. Previously, she was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan and a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), and in 2002 she received the Donald T. Campbell award from SPSP for contributions to social psychology. Currently, she also serves as Director of Stanford's Research Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

Professor Markus has research interests that focus on the sociocultural shaping of mind and self. Specifically, her work is concerned with how gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, cohort, and region or country of national origin may influence thought and feeling, particularly self-relevant thought and feeling. Recent studies of Japanese and American college students have focused on similarities and differences in the nature of self-concept and in the functioning of self-esteem. Related studies examine age and cohort variation in the form and functioning of the self in a large representative sample of American adults.

Primary Interests:

Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Gender Psychology
Motivation, Goal Setting
Person Perception
Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Gender Psychology
Motivation, Goal Setting
Person Perception

Personality, Individual Differences
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Books:

Journal Articles:

Fryberg, S. A., Markus, H. R., Oyserman, D., & Stone, J. M. (2008). Of warrior chiefs and Indian princesses: The psychological consequences of American Indian mascots. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 208-218.
Kim, H., & Markus, H. R. (1999). Deviance or uniqueness, harmony or conformity? A cultural analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(4), 785-800.
Markus, H. (1977). Self-schemata and processing information about the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 63-78.
Markus, H., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253.
Markus, H., & Kunda, Z. (1986). Stability and malleability in the self-concept in the perception of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(4), 858-866.
Markus, H., & Nurius, P. (1986). Possible selves. American Psychologist, 41, 954-969.
Markus, H., Smith, J., & Moreland, R. L. (1985). The role of the self-concept in the perception of others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1494-1512.

Other Publications:

Fiske, A., Kitayama, S., Markus, H. R., & Nisbett, R. E. (1998). The cultural matrix of social psychology. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (4th ed., pp. 915-981). San Francisco: McGraw-Hill.
Markus, H. R., Kitayama, S., & Heiman, R. (1997). Culture and "basic" psychological principles. In E. T. Higgins & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds.), Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. (pp. 857-913). New York: Guilford.
Markus, H. R., Mullally, P., & Kitayama, S. (1997). Selfways: Diversity in modes of cultural participation. In U. Neisser & D. Jopling (Eds.), The conceptual self in context: Culture, experience, self-understanding (pp. 13-61). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Markus, H., & Zajonc, R. B. (1985). The cognitive perspective in social psychology. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (pp. 137-229), 3rd Edition. New York: Random House

Courses Taught:

Cultural Psychology
Mind, Self, and Society
Multiculturalism
Social Psychology
The Self in Psychological Perspective

Cultural Psychology
Mind, Self, and Society
Multiculturalism

Social Psychology
The Self in Psychological Perspective

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Hazel Rose Markus
Department of Psychology
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Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

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