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- Influence
Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?
- R. Baumeister, J. D. Campbell, J. Krueger, K. Vohs
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science in the public interest : a…
- 1 May 2003
Self-esteem has become a household word. Teachers, parents, therapists, and others have focused efforts on boosting self-esteem, on the assumption that high self-esteem will cause many positive… Expand
The bystander-effect: a meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.
- P. Fischer, J. Krueger, +6 authors Martina Kainbacher
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 30 June 2011
Research on bystander intervention has produced a great number of studies showing that the presence of other people in a critical situation reduces the likelihood that an individual will help. As the… Expand
Social Projection to Ingroups and Outgroups: A Review and Meta-Analysis
- Jordan M. Robbins, J. Krueger
- Psychology, Medicine
- Personality and social psychology review : an…
- 1 February 2005
Social projection is the tendency to expect similarities between oneself and others. A review of the literature and a meta-analhsis reveal that projection is stronger when people make judgments about… Expand
Unskilled, unaware, or both? The better-than-average heuristic and statistical regression predict errors in estimates of own performance.
- J. Krueger, R. Mueller
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 February 2002
People who score low on a performance test overestimate their own performance relative to others, whereas high scorers slightly underestimate their own performance. J. Kruger and D. Dunning (1999)… Expand
The truly false consensus effect: an ineradicable and egocentric bias in social perception.
- J. Krueger, R. W. Clement
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1994
Consensus bias is the overuse of self-related knowledge in estimating the prevalence of attributes in a population. The bias seems statistically appropriate (Dawes, 1989), but according to the… Expand
Personal beliefs and cultural stereotypes about racial characteristics.
- J. Krueger
- Psychology
- 1 September 1996
Social stereotypes may be expressed as personal beliefs about the characteristics of a group or as beliefs about the predominant cultural view of a group. In a study with a full intergroup design.… Expand
From social projection to social behaviour
- J. Krueger
- Psychology
- 1 November 2007
Social projection is a judgemental heuristic that allows people to make quick and reasonably accurate predictions about others. The first part of this paper presents a review of the status of… Expand
On the Perception of Social Consensus
- J. Krueger
- Psychology
- 1998
Publisher Summary Humans, as social creatures continually perceive others and predict what others think, feel, and, most importantly, what they will do. Various branches of social psychology have… Expand
Enhancement Bias in Descriptions of Self and Others
- J. Krueger
- Psychology
- 1 May 1998
Self-enhancement bias is the tendency to describe oneself more positively than a normative criterion would predict. This article reviews the common-rater and common-target paradigms for the… Expand
Social categorization moderates social projection.
- R. W. Clement, J. Krueger
- Psychology
- 1 May 2002
When categorized into social groups, people view members of in-groups, but not members of out-groups, as being similar to themselves. In three experiments, social categorization moderated the spread… Expand