Susan Fiske famous quotes

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.
-- Susan Fiske

#Thinking #Differences #People

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.
-- Susan Fiske

#Goal #Hierarchy #Typical

In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly.
-- Susan Fiske

#Motivation #Media #People

If people are going to do post-publication peer review, they need to abide by the same rules as they abide by for pre-publication peer review: not being ad hominem, being respectful, giving the author a chance to respond in a reasonable way.
-- Susan Fiske

#Giving #People #Peer Review

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.
-- Susan Fiske

#Legacy #Want #Wells

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.
-- Susan Fiske

#Goal #Respectful #Discourse

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.
-- Susan Fiske

#Judgment #Good Science #Publish

Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.
-- Susan Fiske

#Errors #People #Psychology

If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the person's motives, about their place in the hierarchy. It's not scientifically relevant.
-- Susan Fiske

#Editors #Peers #Paper

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Think it over, think it under.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.