Professor of Psychology Peter Glick is a social psychologist who studies both the subtle and the overt ways in which prejudices and stereotypes foster social inequality. Along with co-author Susan T. Fiske of Princeton University, he received the 1995 Gordon W. Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for research that introduced the concept of ambivalent sexism, which asserts that not just hostile, but subjectively benevolent — though patronizing and traditional — views of women as pure, but fragile, reinforce gender inequality. Such “benevolent sexism” rewards women for conforming to conventional gender roles and is related to hostile attitudes toward women who fail to do so. The two psychologists developed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, which has since been administered to over 30,000 people in more than 30 nations.
Glick serves on the editorial boards of four professional journals, including recent appointments to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychology of Women Quarterly. He spent two weeks this past year as a visiting “outstanding psychologist” at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; has had articles published in recent issues of American Psychologist, APS Observer, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, and the Journal of Social Issues; and has been invited to give talks at universities and conferences across the United States, as well as in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Chile.
He regularly teaches a course in social psychology, a seminar on prejudice, and a two-term Research Methods sequence co-taught with Gerald Metalsky, associate professor of psychology. Glick particularly enjoys teaching Research Methods, a required course for psychology majors, because of the close interaction it allows him with students, who learn to think like research psychologists by doing genuinely original research projects.
For the past several years he also has taught, with Professor of Religious Studies Karen Carr, an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust.
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