Kay Deaux

Kay Deaux (born 1941) is an American social psychologist known for her pioneering research on immigration and feminist identity. Deaux is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Department of Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). According to Brenda Major, Deaux's work centers on the question of how social categories affect one's psychological makeup, social behavior, and life outcomes, while emphasizing the subjectivity of people's identities and experiences and the larger social context.

Deaux is well known for her work in immigration and gender issues, and her encouragement of social psychologists to study how issues of identity, ethnicity, inter-group contact, attitudes and motivation play out in the immigration process. She is the author of three books related to her research surrounding immigration and feminism: ''To Be an Immigrant,'' ''The Behavior of Women and Men,'' and ''Women of Steel: Female Blue-collar Workers in the Steel Industry''. She served as senior editor (with Mark Snyder) of the ''Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology.'' Other edited volumes include ''Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Traditions'' (with Gina Philogène), ''Social Psychology in the Seventies'' (with Lawrence Wrightsman), ''Social Psychology in the Eighties'' (with Lawrence Wrightsman), and ''Social Psychology in the '90s'' (with Francis Dane). Provided by Wikipedia