Janet Shibley Hyde is the Helen Thompson Woolley Professor Emerit of Psychology and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She received an honorary doctorate degree in social science from Denison University in 1996.
[citation needed] Published in 2005, The Gender Similarities Hypothesis is a focal point of Hyde's work in the field.
[3][4] In this influential study, Hyde conducted a series of meta-analyses that documented how similar males and females are on most psychological variables, which contrasted with how different they are often perceived to be.
[9] Hyde received the Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2016[10] and the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2018.