Lee Jussim is a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He directs the Social Perception Lab, which typically includes 5-15 undergraduate research assistants and 2-3 graduate students. He researches stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination; political radicalization; and identification and reform of suboptimal scientific practices in social science. His 2012 book Social Perception and Social Reality received an award from the American Association of Publishers as best book in psychology that year.