Nancy Cantor

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Nancy Cantor is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Princeton University, Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College

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#1076

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#1335

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#651

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PhD Psychology Stanford University
Bachelors Psychology Sarah Lawrence College

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According to Wikipedia, Nancy Ellen Cantor is an American academic administrator and the chancellor of Rutgers University-Newark, in Newark, New Jersey. A social psychologist, Cantor is recognized for her scholarly contributions to the understanding of how individuals perceive and think about their social worlds, pursue personal goals, and how they regulate their behavior to adapt to life's most challenging social environments. Previously, Cantor was the first woman chancellor at Syracuse University. Prior to that she was the first woman chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Earlier, she had been provost at the University of Michigan.

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Nancy Cantor's Published Works

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Prototypes in Person Perception1 (1979) (792)
Personality and social intelligence (1987) (745)
Defensive pessimism: harnessing anxiety as motivation. (1986) (676)
Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory. (1977) (622)
Personality psychology : recent trends and emerging directions (1989) (544)
Mental Representations of the Self (1984) (509)
Life Tasks, Self-Concept Ideals, and Cognitive Strategies in a Life Transition (1987) (382)
Principles of self-regulation: The nature of willpower and self-control. (1996) (357)
A prototype analysis of psychological situations (1982) (355)
Life task participation and well-being: The importance of taking part in daily life. (1999) (300)
Psychiatric diagnosis as prototype categorization. (1980) (290)
Still participating after all these years: a study of life task participation in later life. (1996) (259)
Testing hypotheses about other people: The use of historical knowledge (1979) (251)
Social Cognition: A Look at Motivated Strategies (1985) (232)
Anticipatory and post hoc cushioning strategies: Optimism and defensive pessimism in “risky” situations (1986) (194)
Understanding personality and social behavior: A functionalist strategy: Vol. 1 (1998) (190)
Prototype matching: a strategy for social decision making. (1985) (190)
Prototypicality and personality: Effects on free recall and personality impressions (1979) (186)
Life Tasks and Daily Life Experience (1991) (181)
Defensive Pessimism and Stress and Coping (1989) (175)
Life Task Problem Solving: Situational Affordances and Personal Needs (1994) (165)
Information processing and the study of the self (1988) (164)
Personality, cognition, and purposive behavior. (1990) (164)
Thinking about ourselves and others: Self-monitoring and social knowledge (1980) (154)
Personal construal of life tasks: Those who struggle for independence (1990) (144)
Social dating goals in late adolescence: implications for safer sexual activity. (1995) (138)
On motivation and the self-concept. (1986) (109)
Social anxiety and social constraint: When making friends is hard. (1989) (100)
Handbook of Intelligence: Social Intelligence (2000) (90)
On the duality of simultaneous time and size perception (1975) (89)
Ups and downs of life tasks in a life transition. (1989) (87)
Personality and social psychology review. (1997) (82)
Effortful pursuit of personal goals in daily life. (1996) (80)
Social intelligence and cognitive assessments of personality. (1989) (76)
Psychiatric diagnosis and natural categorization: A close analogy. (1986) (72)
50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education: The Promise and Challenge of Multicultural Education (2004) (72)
The Association of Intimacy Goals and Marital Satisfaction: A Test of Four Mediational Hypotheses (2001) (64)
Simultaneous time and size perception (1976) (55)
Conflict and preoccupation in the intimacy life task (1992) (54)
To whom do people turn when things go poorly? Task orientation and functional social contacts. (1995) (52)
Creating satisfaction in steady dating relationships : The role of personal goals and situational affordances (1997) (48)
Social intelligence and personality: Flexible life task pursuit. (1994) (44)
Social psychology and sociobiology: What can we leave to evolution? (1990) (40)
Social pursuit of academics : side effects and spillover of strategic reassurance seeking (1994) (39)
Exemplar Prototypes and Clinical Diagnosis: Toward a Cognitive Economy (1987) (38)
Control of attention in the processing of temporal and spatial information in complex visual patterns. (1977) (35)
Personality, Strategic Behavior, and Daily-Life Problem Solving (1994) (32)
Cognitive strategies, coping, and perceptions of competence. (1990) (30)
Goal relevance and the affective experience of daily life: Ruling out situational explanations (1995) (29)
Visual masking effects on duration, size, and form discrimination (1976) (26)
Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Life Span: The Functional Regulation of Adolescent Dating Relationships and Sexual Behavior: An Interaction of Goals, Strategies, and Situations (1998) (24)
A Functionalist Agenda for Trait Psychology (1994) (16)
Involvement, expertise, and schema use: Evidence from political cognition (2017) (15)
Choosing Partners and Activities: The Social Perceiver Decides to Mix It Up (1984) (15)
Getting Acquainted (1984) (12)
The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence: Social Intelligence (2011) (12)
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction (2017) (11)
Overcoming a Lack of Self-Assurance in an Achievement Domain (1995) (9)
On Personality and Memory (2017) (7)
Personal Strategies for HIV Prevention: The Development and Validation of a Strategy‐Coding Instrument1 (1999) (5)
Human Personality: Asocial and Reflexive? (1993) (5)
Personality and Cognition: Something Borrowed, Something New? (2017) (3)
The Influence of Self-Schema on the Perception of Others (2017) (3)
Editorial (1997) (1)
Goals and Schemata in Person Perception: Making Sense From the Stream of Behavior (2017) (1)
Principles of adoloscent selfȬregulation: The nature of wilpower and selfȬcontrol (1996) (0)
General Discussion of Issues: Relationships Between Cognitive Psychology and the Psychology of Personality (2017) (0)
Intimacy Goals Scale (2012) (0)
Considerations for a Theory of Self-Inference Processes (2017) (0)
Social Intelligence (2019) (0)

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