Justin KrugerSummaryAffiliation: New York University Country: USA Publications
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Actions, intentions, and self-assessment: the road to self-enhancement is paved with good intentionsJustin Kruger
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:328-39. 2004..Discussion focuses on the motivational and information-processing roots of this actor-observer difference in the weight assigned to intentions as well as the implications of this tendency for everyday judgment and decision making...- Egocentrism over e-mail: can we communicate as well as we think?Justin Kruger
New York University, Leonard N Stern School of Business, NY 10012, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:925-36. 2005..Because e-mail communicators "hear" a statement differently depending on whether they intend to be, say, sarcastic or funny, it can be difficult to appreciate that their electronic audience may not... - Intentions in teasing: when "just kidding" just isn't good enoughJustin Kruger
Department of Marketing, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 90:412-25. 2006..As a result, teasers and targets systematically differ in their perceptions of teasing: Although it is often seen as innocent and playful by the teaser, it tends to be construed as considerably more malicious by the target... - (Not so) positive illusionsJustin Kruger
Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012 http w4 stern nyu edu faculty facultyindex cgi id 370
Behav Brain Sci 32:526-7. 2009..As such, the question of whether positive illusions are adaptive from an evolutionary standpoint may be premature in light of the fact that their very existence may be an illusion... - The influence of egocentrism and focalism on people's optimism in competitions: when what affects us equally affects me morePaul D Windschitl
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:389-408. 2003..We identify egocentrism and focalism as two causes of the bias. The experiments revealed moderators of this bias, but also illustrated its robust nature across a variety of conditions... - Counterfactual thinking and the first instinct fallacyJustin Kruger
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:725-35. 2005..This differential availability provides individuals with compelling (albeit illusory) personal evidence for the wisdom of always following their 1st instinct, with suboptimal test scores the result...