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Hazel R. Markus
Professor of Psychology

Hazel Rose Markus has been a professor of psychology at Stanford University since 1994 and prior to that was a faculty member in the department of psychology at the University of Michigan. In the past she has been research scientist at the Institute for Social Research. Her research has focused on the role of the self in regulating behavior. She has written on self-schemas, possible selves, the influence of the self on the perception of others, and the constructive role of the self in adult development.

Her most recent work is in the area of cultural psychology and explores the interdependence between psychological structures and processes and sociocultural environments. She received her B.A. degree from California State University at San Diego and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and study sections at both the National Institute of Mental Health and National Science Foundation. She is a fellow of the APS and the APA. She is also a member of the McArthur Research Network on Successful Midlife Development. She was elected to the National Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 1995 and was named the Davis-Brack Professor Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.