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5320
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Overview

Nancy Cantor is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. This association places them within an institution known for a diverse range of research and academic activities.

Their frequent collaborators include Earl Lewis, with whom they have co-authored several works. The recorded collaboration counts are four, indicating a recurrent professional relationship across multiple projects.

  • Earl Lewis (4 co-authored works)

No recent papers, specific fields of study, subfields, topics, awards, or book publications are listed in the available data.

Best Publications

  • Book Review Nisbett, R. , & Ross, L.Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment.Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

    George A. Miller;Nancy Cantor

  • Prototypes in Person Perception1

    Nancy Cantor;Walter Mischel

  • Personality and social intelligence

    Nancy Cantor;John F Kihlstrom

  • Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory.

    Nancy Cantor;Walter Mischel

  • Defensive pessimism: Harnessing anxiety as motivation.

    Julie K. Norem;Nancy Cantor

  • Life Tasks, Self-Concept Ideals, and Cognitive Strategies in a Life Transition

    Nancy Cantor;Julie K. Norem;Paula M. Niedenthal;Christopher A. Langston

  • Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction

    Nancy Cantor;John F. Kihlstrom

  • Mental Representations of the Self

    John F. Kihlstrom;Nancy Cantor

  • From thought to behavior: "Having" and "doing" in the study of personality and cognition.

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  • Defensive pessimism: Harnessing anxiety as motivation.

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  • Personality Psychology : Recent Trends And Emerging Directions

    David M. Buss;Nancy Cantor

  • A prototype analysis of psychological situations

    Nancy Cantor;Walter Mischel;Judith C Schwartz

  • An influence of positive affect on social categorization

    Alice M. Isen;Paula M. Niedenthal;Nancy Cantor

  • Anticipatory and post hoc cushioning strategies: Optimism and defensive pessimism in “risky” situations

    Julie K. Norem;Nancy Cantor

  • Principles of self-regulation: The nature of willpower and self-control.

    Walter Mischel;Nancy Cantor;Scott Feldman

  • On motivation and the self-concept.

    Nancy Cantor;Hazel Markus;Paula Niedenthal;Paula Nurius

  • Personality, cognition, and purposive behavior.

    Nancy Cantor;Sabrina Zirkel

  • Information processing and the study of the self

    John F. Kihlstrom;Jeanne Sumi Albright;Stanley B. Klein;Nancy Cantor

  • Life Tasks and Daily Life Experience

    Nancy Cantor;Julie Norem;Christopher Langston;Sabrina Zirkel

  • Testing hypotheses about other people: The use of historical knowledge

    Mark Snyder;Nancy Cantor

  • Life task participation and well-being: The importance of taking part in daily life.

    Nancy Cantor;Catherine A. Sanderson

  • Still participating after all these years: a study of life task participation in later life.

    Robert E. Harlow;Nancy Cantor

  • Personal construal of life tasks: Those who struggle for independence

    Sabrina Zirkel;Nancy Cantor

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
John F. Kihlstrom
John F. Kihlstrom University of California, Berkeley
Mark Snyder
Mark Snyder University of Minnesota
Alice M. Isen
Alice M. Isen Cornell University
William Fleeson
William Fleeson Wake Forest University
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University
Diane M. Mackie
Diane M. Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara
Stanley B. Klein
Stanley B. Klein University of California, Santa Barbara
Paula S. Nurius
Paula S. Nurius University of Washington
David M. Buss
David M. Buss The University of Texas at Austin

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