What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Cognition
- Psychotherapist
His scientific interests lie mostly in Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Cognition, Attribution and Debiasing.
His study in Social psychology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Pessimism and Cognitive bias.
In his research, Social perception is intimately related to Life satisfaction, which falls under the overarching field of Pessimism.
His studies in Developmental psychology integrate themes in fields like Self-efficacy and Social loafing.
The concepts of his Attribution study are interwoven with issues in Expectancy theory, Argument and Counterfactual conditional.
Lawrence J. Sanna interconnects Hindsight bias, Metacognition and Fluency in the investigation of issues within Debiasing.
His most cited work include:
- Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: An Overview (387 citations)
- Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns (241 citations)
- He's Skilled, She's Lucky: A Meta-Analysis of Observers' Attributions for Women's and Men's Successes and Failures (185 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His main research concerns Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Personality, Counterfactual thinking and Pessimism.
Lawrence J. Sanna usually deals with Social psychology and limits it to topics linked to Cognition and Coping.
He has included themes like Orientation, Attribution and Self-efficacy in his Developmental psychology study.
His work on Big Five personality traits as part of general Personality research is frequently linked to Cultural diversity, bridging the gap between disciplines.
In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Counterfactual thinking, Content is strongly linked to Cognitive psychology.
His Pessimism study combines topics in areas such as Optimism and Life satisfaction.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (63.33%)
- Developmental psychology (23.33%)
- Personality (21.11%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2018)?
- Social psychology (63.33%)
- Feeling (4.44%)
- Clinical psychology (15.56%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Lawrence J. Sanna spends much of his time researching Social psychology, Feeling, Clinical psychology, Social psychology and Notice.
His study in Social dilemma, Social motivation and Group membership is done as part of Social psychology.
His Social dilemma research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Matching, Construal level theory and Mood.
Lawrence J. Sanna performs multidisciplinary study in Feeling and Prologue in his work.
His work on Perfectionism and Multidimensional perfectionism as part of general Clinical psychology research is frequently linked to Group and Population, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science.
The various areas that Lawrence J. Sanna examines in his Social psychology study include Developmental psychology and Prosocial behavior.
Between 2011 and 2018, his most popular works were:
- Evidence for the Validity of the Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire in a Nonclinical Population: More Than Just Negative Affectivity (23 citations)
- A Test of the Usefulness of Perfectionism Theory Across Cultures: Does Perfectionism in the US and Japan Predict Depressive Symptoms Across Time? (20 citations)
- Retraction notice to “Rising up to higher virtues: Experiencing elevated physical height uplifts prosocial actions” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (2010) 472–476] (4 citations)
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