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World Ranking
10009
National Ranking
5270

Overview

Stephen G. Harkins is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple fields within psychology and health professions, focusing on behavioral health interventions, community health, and motivation related to sports.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

They have contributed to several subfields, notably:

  • Applied Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology

The primary research topics addressed in their work involve:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Community Health and Development
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Stephen G. Harkins has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors including Adam J. Brown, Adam Brown, James E. Driskell, Deborah L. Feltz, and Joachim Hüffmeier.

Best Publications

  • Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing

    Bibb Latané;Kipling Williams;Stephen Harkins

  • Identifiability as a deterrant to social loafing: Two cheering experiments.

    Kipling Williams;Stephen G. Harkins;Bibb Latané

  • Effects of task difficulty and task uniqueness on social loafing.

    Stephen G. Harkins;Richard E. Petty

  • The Effects of Group Diffusion of Cognitive Effort on Attitudes: An Information-Processing View.

    Richard E. Petty;Stephen G. Harkins;Kipling D. Williams

  • Social Loafing and Social Facilitation

    Stephen G Harkins

  • Information Utility and the Multiple Source Effect

    Stephen G. Harkins;Richard E. Petty

  • The Role of Evaluation in Eliminating Social Loafing

    Stephen G. Harkins;Jeffrey M. Jackson

  • Mere effort and stereotype threat performance effects.

    Jeremy P. Jamieson;Stephen G. Harkins

  • Effects of source magnification of cognitive effort on attitudes: An information-processing view.

    Stephen G. Harkins;Richard E. Petty

  • Need Threat Can Motivate Performance After Ostracism

    Jeremy P Jamieson;Stephen G Harkins;Kipling D Williams

  • Effects of personal involvement: Thought-provoking implications for social loafing.

    Mary A. Brickner;Stephen G. Harkins;Thomas M. Ostrom

  • Equity in effort: An explanation of the social loafing effect.

    Jeffrey M. Jackson;Stephen G. Harkins

  • The Effects of Group Size on Cognitive Effort and Evaluation

    Richard E. Petty;Stephen G. Harkins;Kipling D. Williams;Bibb Latane

  • Social loafing and group evaluation.

    Stephen G. Harkins;Kate Szymanski

  • The Multiple Source Effect in Persuasion The Effects of Distraction

    Stephen G. Harkins;Richard E. Petty

  • Mere effort as the mediator of the evaluation-performance relationship.

    Stephen G. Harkins

  • Social loafing: Allocating effort or taking it easy?

    Stephen G Harkins;Bibb Latané;Kipling Williams

  • Social loafing and self-evaluation with a social standard.

    Kate Szymanski;Stephen G. Harkins

  • Evaluation and Performance: A Two-Edged Knife

    Scott Bartis;Kate Szymanski;Stephen G. Harkins

  • Race of source effects in the elaboration likelihood model.

    Paul H. White;Stephen G. Harkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
Kipling D. Williams
Kipling D. Williams Purdue University West Lafayette
Bibb Latané
Bibb Latané Florida Atlantic University
John H. Harvey
John H. Harvey University of Iowa
Gary L. Wells
Gary L. Wells Iowa State University

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