Background

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, Cornell University, 1999
• B.S., Psychology, Santa Clara University, 1993

Selected Professional Activity

• Co-Organizer, Judgment and Decision Making Pre-Conference, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007
• Program Committee, Association for Consumer Research (2006, Annual Meeting)
• Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2001-2003)
• Ad-hoc Reviewer: Acta Psychologica, British Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, International Journal of Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Motivation and Emotion, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Political Psychology, Psychological Reports, Psychological Science, Review of General Psychology.

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

Teaching Awards

• Hohenboken Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, 2003
• Incomplete List of Teachers Rated "Excellent" by their Students, University of Illinois, 2000
• Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 1998

Selected Publications (in reverse chronological order)

• Kruger, J., & Savitsky, K. (2009), "On the Genesis of Inflated (and Deflated) Judgments of Responsibility: Egocentrism Revisited."Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108 (1), 143-152.
• Ehrlinger, Joyce, Kerri Johnson, Matthew Banner, David Dunning, and Justin Kruger (2008), "Why the Unskilled are Unaware: Furthe Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 105 (1), 98-121.
• Kruger, J., & Vargas, P. (2008). Consumer confusion of percent differences. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 18 (1), 46-61.
• Kruger, Justin, Paul Windschitl, Jeremy Burrus, Florian Fessel, and John Chambers (2008), "The Rational Side of Egocentrism in Social Comparisons." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (2), 220-232.
• Kruger, Justin, Jeff Galak, and Jeremy Burrus (2007), "When Consumers Self-Interest Motives Fail." Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17 (4), 250-253.
• Kruger, J., Gordan, C., & Kuban, J. (2006). Intentions in teasing: When "just kidding" just isn't good enough. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 412-425.
• Roese, N. J., Fessel, F., Summerville, A., Kruger, J., & Dilich, M. A. (2006). The propensity effect: When foresight trumps hindsight. Psychological Science, 17, 305-310.
• Epley, N., & Kruger, J. (2005). When what you type isn't what they read: The perseverance of stereotypes and expectancies over e-mail. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 414-422.
• Kruger, J., Epley, N., Parker, J., & Ng, Z. (2005). Egocentrism over e-mail: Can people communicate as well as they think? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 925-936.
• Kruger, J., Wirtz, D., & Miller, D. (2005). Counterfactual thinking and the first instinct fallacy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 725-735.
• Kruger, J., & Burrus, J. (2004). Egocentrism and focalism in unrealistic optimism (and pessimism). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 332-340.
• Kruger, J., & Evans, M. (2004). If you don't want to be late, enumerate: Unpacking reduces the planning fallacy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 586-594.
• Kruger, J., & Gilovich, T. (2004). Actions and intentions in self-assessments: The road to self-enhancement is paved with good intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 328-339.
• Kruger, J., Wirtz, D., Van Boven, L., & Altermatt, T. W. (2004). The effort heuristic. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 91-98.
• Dunning, D., Johnson, K., Ehrlinger, J., & Kruger, J. (2003). Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12, 83-86.
• Windschitl, P., Kruger, J., & Simms, E. (2003). The influence of egocentrism and focalism on people's confidence in competitions: When what affects us equally affects me more. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 389-408.
• Wirtz, D., Kruger, J., Scollon, C. N., & Diener, E. (2003). The role of predicted, online, and remembered experience on future choice. Psychological Science, 14, 520-524.
• Gilovich, T., Kruger, J., & Medvec, V. H. (2002). The spotlight effect revisited: Overestimating the manifest variability of our actions and appearance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 93-99.
• Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (2002). Unskilled and unaware-but why? A reply to Krueger & Mueller. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 189-192.
• Pronin, E., Kruger, J., Savitsky, K., & Ross, L. (2001). You don't know me, but I know you: Asymmetric assessment of insight into self and other. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 639-656.
• Van Boven, L., Kruger, J., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (2000). When social worlds collide: Overconfidence in the multiple audience problem. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 619-628.
• Kruger, J. (1999). Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 221-232.
• Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134.
• Kruger, J., & Gilovich, T. (1999). "Naive cynicism" in everyday theories of responsibility assessment: On biased assumptions of bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 743-753.

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