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Robert Arkin

Psychology

#1543

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#1860

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Social Psychology

#172

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#182

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Robert Arkin's Degrees

PhD Social Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Masters Social Psychology University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Psychology University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Robert M. Arkin was a social psychologist and member of the social psychology program faculty at Ohio State University. He was primarily known for his research on self-handicapping. Research Arkin’s research concerned the self in social interaction, with special emphasis on the uncertain self . Arkin developed the Subjective Overachievement Scale in 2001 to tap feelings of self-doubt coupled with a performance outcome concerns. He was the editor of the books Most Underappreciated: 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most Unloved Work, Handbook of the Uncertain Self , and Handbook of Personal Security .

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Robert Arkin's Published Works

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Materialism as an attempt to cope with uncertainty (2002) (373)
I Am Too Just Like You (2008) (368)
15 – Self-Presentation Styles (1981) (302)
An impression management interpretation of the self-handicapping strategy. (1982) (265)
Social anxiety, self-presentation, and the self-serving bias in causal attribution. (1980) (248)
Focus of attention and causal attributions of actors and observers (1975) (191)
Subjective overachievement: individual differences in self-doubt and concern with performance. (2000) (148)
Shyness and Self-Presentation (1986) (135)
The Minnesota smoking prevention program: a seventh-grade health curriculum supplement. (1981) (130)
Self-Monitoring Scale (1980) (129)
Attribution, Affect, and College Exam Performance. (1979) (124)
Nonconscious Mimicry as an Automatic Behavioral Response to Social Exclusion (2008) (122)
Self-Handicapping (1989) (121)
Effect of perceived choice, expected outcome, and observed outcome of an action on the causal attributions of actors (1976) (83)
Claiming Mood as a Self-Handicap (1985) (81)
A statistical review of the literature concerning the self-serving attribution bias in interpersonal influence situations (1980) (77)
Prediction, control, and learned helplessness. (1980) (74)
Self-Doubt and Self-Esteem: A Threat from within (2002) (69)
Role of causal attribution in personal problem solving. (1986) (68)
Determinants of Self-Handicapping (1989) (67)
A regulatory focus model of self-evaluation. (2007) (54)
Effect of expected and observed outcome of an action on the differential causal attributions of actor and observer1 (1974) (53)
Roles of attribution, affect, and cognitive interference in test anxiety. (1982) (49)
Handbook of the Uncertain Self (2010) (47)
Self-Expansion through Fictional Characters (2014) (46)
Affective state mediates causal attributions for success and failure (1988) (45)
SHAME, RAGE, AND UNSUCCESSFUL MOTIVATED REASONING IN VULNERABLE NARCISSISM (2015) (42)
DOwNwarD SElf-rEviSiON: EraSiNG pOSSiblE SElvES (2009) (40)
Human motivation : physiological, behavioral, and social approaches (1984) (39)
Motivation, heuristics, and the psychology of prediction (1979) (37)
Self-Presentation and Self-Evaluation: Processes of Self-Control and Social Control (1986) (36)
Shyness, Sociability and Patterns of Everyday Affiliation (1990) (33)
Prediction , Control , and Learned Helplessness (2005) (32)
On quantitative reviewing1 (1981) (31)
Perceived agency mediates the link between the narcissistic subtypes and self-esteem (2016) (31)
Subjective Overachievement in American and Chinese College Students (2004) (28)
Self-Presentation, Self-Monitoring, and the Self-Serving Bias in Causal Attribution (1979) (28)
Most Underappreciated: 50 Prominent Social Psychologists Describe Their Most Unloved Work (2011) (26)
The role of social perspective in perceiving the causes of success and failure1 (1978) (25)
Effects of unit relation tendencies on interpersonal attraction. (1980) (25)
Plumbing the Depths of the Bogus Pipeline: A Reprise. (1983) (25)
Attributions of the Test-Anxious Student (1983) (25)
Self-doubt, attributions, and the perceived implicit theories of others (2006) (24)
The Social Experience of Entertainment Media (2011) (24)
Reactions to objective and subjective interpersonal evaluation: the influence of social anxiety (1985) (21)
Self-Doubt: Self-Doubt (2012) (18)
Distinguishing the subjective and the objective aspects of self-concept clarity (2016) (16)
Social anxiety and receptivity to interpersonal evaluation (1983) (16)
Effects of corrective testing: an extension (1984) (15)
When practice doesn’t make perfect: Effort expenditure as an active behavioral self-handicapping strategy (2009) (13)
Behavioral Other-Enhancement: Strategically Obscuring the Link Between Performance and Evaluation (1991) (13)
Handbook of Personal Security (2015) (13)
Who Am I? How Asking the Question Changes the Answer (2015) (11)
The relative importance of needs among traumatized and non-traumatized samples (2009) (11)
Dysphoria as a moderator of the relationship between perceived effort and perceived ability. (1994) (11)
The shape of self-evaluation: Implicit theories of intelligence and judgments of intellectual ability (2003) (10)
Possible Selves and Self-Doubt (2011) (10)
Coping with the Prospect of Social Disapproval (1987) (10)
The Social Experience of Entertainment Media Effects of Others ’ Evaluations on Our Experience (2011) (10)
The Taj Mahal of selves. (2001) (9)
Security in the Aftermath of 9/11 (2006) (9)
Self-Presentation Strategies and Sequelae (1988) (9)
The Effect of Commitment on Expectancy Value and Expectancy Weight in Social Decision Making (1979) (8)
Causal attributions of high and low achievement motivation college students for performance on examinations (1981) (8)
Self-concept clarity: buffering the impact of self-evaluative information (2014) (8)
Performance implications of corrective testing. (1983) (8)
Constraints on Excuse Making: The Deterring Effects of Shyness and Anticipated Retest (1995) (7)
Constructing desirable identities--self-presentation in psychotherapy and daily life: comment on Kelly (2000) (2000) (6)
(In)Competence Is Everywhere: Self-Doubt and the Accessibility of Competence (2015) (5)
On Celebrating William James's Principles of Psychology (1990) (5)
Dysphoria as a moderator of the relationship between perceived effort and perceived ability (1994) (4)
Effects of increased occupational participation by women on androgynous and nonandrogynous individuals' ratings of occupational attractiveness (1980) (4)
Information-Processing and Motivated Distortion in the Attribution of Causality for Success and Failure. (1979) (3)
Reviewing and Evaluating a Research Article (2006) (2)
Shyness and Embarrassment: Shyness and self-presentation (1990) (2)
Slaying the Empirical Dragon. (1994) (2)
Communication, Cognition, and Anxiety: So Many Topics, So Little Time. (1992) (1)
1. Introduction: The uncertain self (2010) (1)
Introducing handbook of personal security (2015) (1)
Observer Attribution: Effects of Dynamic Qualities of the Actor. (1978) (1)
24. Commentary: The end of the beginning (2010) (1)
17. Perceived evaluative styles and self-doubt (2010) (1)
Social Anxiety and Reactions to Interpersonal Evaluative Information. (1983) (1)
Narcissism and Protection Against Social Threat (2015) (1)
Strangers on a plane: Flying under the radar. (2010) (0)
Culture and Social Behavior: Casting the Net Widely in the Globalization of Personality and Social Psychology. (2005) (0)
Subjective Overachievement Scale--Revised (2020) (0)
COMMENTARIES (2001) (0)
This book is liable to be just what you expect: Smile, don’t slouch, concentrate while reading, and it could be even better. (2013) (0)
Guffaws and chortles, sniggers and titters, burbles and chuckles, cackles and giggles: Deciphering the nuance of laughter. (2011) (0)
Moderation of the Carry-over Effect of Self-Presentation: The Role of Thought Suppression: (413802005-176) (2001) (0)
In the era of 9/11 (2006) (0)
Editorial: Animal Metaphors (2009) (0)
Self Evaluation 1 Relationships and Self Evaluation: An Exploration of Relational Schemas on the Self A Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation with research distinction in Psychology in the undergraduate colleges (2010) (0)
One part attribution, three parts application, stir vigorously. (1992) (0)
Self-Doubt, Handicaps, and Hard Work (2001) (0)
Effects of Self-Presentational Strategy and Empathic Instructions on Observers' Attributions. (1977) (0)
Acknowledgment (1997) (0)
Compensatory self-enhancement and compensatory self-protection: Individual differences in selfesteem and strategic self-presentation: (633982013-502) (2007) (0)
The Social Fabric: A Guide to Being Late for a Date, Getting Help, and So Much More . . . (1998) (0)
Social Influence Volume 5, 2010, List of Reviewers (2010) (0)
Bring on the Second Century. (1998) (0)
Choosing the lesser evil: How self-doubt affects the choice of interaction partners: (633872013-649) (2003) (0)
Focus on individual differences: A throwback and a throw down. (2012) (0)

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