Email:
lepper@stanford.edu Office Location:
Jordan Hall, Building 420 Room 382 Office Phone:
(650) 725-2449 Fax:
650 725-5699 Administration:
Roz Grayson
Research Topics:
culture,
education,
learning and memory,
motivation and emotion,
reasoning and problem solving
Research Summary
Strategies and techniques of expert tutors: Motivational and cognitive processes. Microcomputers in education: Effects of educational programs on children's intrinsic motivation and learning. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation: Detrimental effects of superfluous social controls and strategies for enhancing intrinsic interest. Choice and its consequences: Cultural and situational differences. Social cognition and attribution processes: Attributional biases and inferential errors. Social and moral development.
Education
Ph.D. Social and Developmental Psychology, Yale University, 1971