Mark Snyder is an

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social psychologist Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the re ...

who is recognized as the founder of the personality scale called the 25-item self-monitoring scale (later modified to the 18-item self-monitoring scale). In 2013, Snyder works as the McKnight Presidential Chair of Psychology at the

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Early life and education

Snyder spent his undergraduate years at

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where he received his bachelor's degree in 1968. He continued his studies at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

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. 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. Snyder conducts his research at the Center for the Study of the Individual and Society, investigating how and why people become actively involved in doing good for others and for society, and how it affects their perceived level of

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."Helping others, helping ourselves"

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...

. He has made seminal contributions to the field of social and

personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * construction of a c ...

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