Mark Snyder (psychologist)

Mark 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

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

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Noel Sheehy; Antony J. Chapman; Wendy A. Conroy (2002). Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. Taylor & Francis. pp. 532–. ISBN 978-0-415-28561-2.
5. "Why Helping Others Makes Us Happy". Money - US News.
6. Abraham P Buunk; Mark Van Vugt (15 November 2007). Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions. SAGE Publications. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-1-4462-2302-4.
7. Abraham P Buunk; Mark Van Vugt (18 September 2013). Applying Social Psychology: From Problems to Solutions. SAGE Publications. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-4462-9287-7.
8. "Helping others, helping ourselves". American Psychological Association.

External links

• Mark Snyder's profile at CSIS
• "studies in selfish altruism". University of Minnesota
• Kay Deaux; Mark Snyder (10 February 2012). The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford University Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-0-19-539899-1.