Mark Lepper

     
Institution
Stanford University

Current Position
Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social and Developmental Psychology from Yale University, 1971

Research Interests
Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes
Attribution
Culture/Ethnicity
Motivation/Goal Setting
Self/Identity

 
Mark Lepper
Department of Psychology
Jordan Hall, Building 420
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2130
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (650) 725-2448
Fax: (650) 725-5699
Wikipedia entryVita

Mark Lepper
Professor Lepper has a wide range of research interests, including: extrinsic incentives, intrinsic motivation, and education; perseverance in attribution and self-perception processes; children's internalization of adult values; attitude-behavior consistency; microcomputers in education; expertise in tutoring; and choice and control in cultural context.


Journal Articles:

  • Iyengar, S. S., & Lepper, M. R. (1999). Rethinking the role of choice: A cultural perspective on intrinsic motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 349-366.
  • Lepper, M. R. (1998). A whole much less than the sum of its parts: A comment on Eisenberger and Cameron. American Psychologist, 53, 675-676.
  • Lepper, M. R., Henderlong, J., & Gingras, I. (1999). Understanding the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation: Uses and abuses of meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 669-676.
  • Shultz, T. R., Leveille, E., & Lepper, M. R. (1999). Free-choice and cognitive dissonance revisited. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 40-48.
  • Sia, T. L., Lord, C. G., Blessum, K. A., & Lepper, M. R. (1999). Activation of exemplars in the process of assessing social category attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 517-532.
  • Sia, T. L., Lord, C. G., Blessum, K. A., Ratcliff, C. D., & Lepper, M. R. (1997). Is a rose always a rose? The role of social category exemplar change in attitude stability and attitude-behavior consistency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 501-514.

Other Publications:

  • Iyengar, S. S., Lepper, M. R., & Ross, L. (1999). Independence from whom? Interdependence with whom? Cultural perspectives on ingroups and outgroups. In D. Prentice & D. Miller (Eds.), Cultural Divides (pp. 273-301). New York: Sage.
  • Lepper, M. R., & Henderlong, J. (2000). Turning "play" into "work" and "work" into "play": 25 years of research on intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. In C. Sansone & J. Harackiewicz (Eds.), Intrinsic motivation: Controversies and new directions. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Lepper. M. R., & Shultz, T. R. (1999). Dissonance theory. In R. A. Wilson & F. C. Keil (Eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 233-234). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Lord, C. G., & Lepper, M. R. (1999). Attitude representation theory. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 31, pp. 265-343). San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Shultz, T. R., & Lepper, M. R. (1999). Computer simulations of cognitive dissonance reduction. In E. Harmon-Jones & J. Mills (Eds.), Cognitive dissonance. Progress on a pivotal theory in social psychology.(pp. 235-265). Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.
  • Shultz, T. R., & Lepper, M. R. (1998). The consonance model of dissonance reduction. In S. J. Read & L. C. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist and PDP models of social reasoning andsocial behavior (pp. 211-244). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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