Mark Lepper
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Mark Lepper | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | overjustification |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Dissonance, self perception, and the generalization of moral behavior (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Zigler |
| Doctoral students | Thomas Gilovich |
Mark R. Lepper (born December 5, 1944) is the Albert Ray Lang Professor of
attribution theory and confirmation bias, and for his collaborations with Lee Ross
.
Life
Lepper is primarily responsible for the elucidation of the
Richard Nisbett
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With frequent collaborator
disconfirmation bias. With Lord he later theorized attitude representation theory. He has also worked with Thomas Gilovich and Merrill Carlsmith
.
Lepper attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, earning a B.A. with great distinction in psychology in 1966. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Social and Developmental Psychology at Yale University in 1970, returning to Stanford in 1971 as an assistant professor. Lepper became a full professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of education in 1982, and has since served as chairman of the department of psychology between 1990 and 1994, and again after 2000. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society.
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