Lee Jussim

Lee J. Jussim (born December 2, 1955) is an American social psychologist. He leads the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University.

Early life and education When Jussim was five years old, his family moved into a Brooklyn-area public housing; his family lived there until he was 12. When he was 13, his family moved to Levittown, Long Island, and his mother died of cancer shortly after.

Work Jussim runs the Social Perception Lab at Rutgers University, Livingston Campus. The lab studies how people perceive, think about, and judge others.

Jussim co-authored a paper commissioned by the US Department of Health and Human Services that argued that affirmation of transgender people accelerated political violence. This paper has been criticized for it's poor methodology.