Mark Snyder (psychologist)
Markus Snyder is an American social psychologist[1] who is recognized as the founder of the personality scale called the 25-item self-monitoring scale[2] (later modified to the 18-item self-monitoring scale). In 2013, Snyder works as the McKnight Presidential Chair of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Early life and education[edit]
Snyder spent his undergraduate years at McGill University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1968. He continued his studies at Stanford University where he would eventually receive a PhD in Psychology in 1972.
Career[edit]
A major theme of Snyder's work is to understand how individuals form their own social lives.[3] Snyder studies differences in self-monitoring, and how high or low levels of self-monotoring affect people's understanding of how they adjust to social settings. Snyder's 18-item personality scale can also serve as a device to communicate to people on where they fall on the two concepts of self-monitoring.[4]
Snyder conducts his research at the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society,[5] investigating how and why people become actively involved in doing good for others and for society,[6][7] and how it affects their perceived level of happiness.[8] He has made seminal contributions to the field of social and personality psychology.
References[edit]
- ^ Bernice Pescosolido; Ronald Aminzade (22 March 1999). The Social Worlds of Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in A New Century. SAGE Publications. pp. 91–. ISBN 978-0-7619-8613-3.
- ^ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Brant Wenegrat Associate Professor (7 September 2001). Theater of Disorder : Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness. Oxford University Press. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-0-19-534976-4.
- ^ Eric Eich; John F. Kihlstrom; Gordon H. Bower; Joseph P. Forgas; Paula M. Niedenthal (28 July 2000). Cognition and Emotion. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-19-535444-7.
- ^ Noel Sheehy; Antony J. Chapman; Wendy A. Conroy (2002). Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. Taylor & Francis. pp. 532–. ISBN 978-0-415-28561-2.
- ^ "Why Helping Others Makes Us Happy". Money - US News.
- ^ Abraham P Buunk; Markus Van Vugt (15 November 2007). Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions. SAGE Publications. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-1-4462-2302-4.
- ^ Abraham P Buunk; Markus Van Vugt (18 September 2013). Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions. SAGE Publications. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-4462-9287-7.
- ^ "Helping others, helping ourselves". American Psychological Association.
External links[edit]
- Markus Snyder's profile at CSIS
- "studies in selfish altruism". University of Minnesota
- Kay Deaux; Markus Snyder (10 February 2012). The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford University Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-19-539899-1.
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