Hazel Rose Markus

Hazel Rose Markus (born 1949) is an American social psychologist and a pioneer of cultural psychology, the study of how culture shapes mind and behavior. She is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and founded Stanford SPARQ, a group that works with industry on disparities and culture change using behavioral science. Her research examines how region, ethnicity, race, social class, gender and occupation shape the self, and through the self how people think, feel and act. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a former president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.