In 2013, Snyder works as the McKnight Presidential Chair of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Snyder spent his undergraduate years at McGill University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1968.
A major theme of Snyder's work is to understand how individuals form their own social lives.
[3] Snyder studies differences in self-monitoring, and how high or low levels of self-monotoring affect people's understanding of how they adjust to social settings.
Snyder's 18-item personality scale can also serve as a device to communicate to people on where they fall on the two concepts of self-monitoring.