Publications

Schlenker, B. R., Chambers, J. R., & Le, B. M. (in press). Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality,
         and life satisfaction. Journal of Research in Personality.  Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R., & Davis, M. H. (in press).  The role of the self in perspective-taking and empathy: Ease of self-simulation as a heuristic
         for inferring empathic feelings. Social Cognition.  Abstract    PDF

Suls, J., Chambers, J., Krizan, Z., Mortensen, C. R., Koestner, B., & Bruchmann, K. (2010). Testing four explanation for the
         better/worse-than-average effect: Single- and multi-item entities as comparison targets and referents. Organizational Behavior
         and Human Decision Processes,113, 62-72. Abstract    PDF     

Chambers, J. R. (2010). Why the parts are better (or worse) than the whole: The unique attributes hypothesis. Psychological Science,
         21, 269-275. Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R., & Windschitl, P. D. (2009). Evaluating one performance among others: The influence of rank and degree of exposure
          to comparison referents. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 776-792.   Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R., Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Windschitl, P. D. (2008). Knowing too much: Using private knowledge to predict how one is 
         viewed by others. Psychological Science, 19, 542-548.  Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R. (2008). Explaining false uniqueness: Why we’re both better and worse than others. Social and Personality
         Psychology Compass, 2, 1-17.  Abstract    PDF

Kruger, J., Windschitl, P. D., Burrus, J., Fessel, F., & Chambers, J. R. (2008). The rational side of egocentrism in social comparisons.
         Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 220-232.  Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R., & Suls, J. (2007). The role of egocentrism and focalism in the emotion intensity bias. Journal of Experimental Social
         Psychology, 43, 618-625.  Abstract    PDF

Chambers, J. R., & Melnyk, D. (2006). Why do I hate thee? Conflict misperceptions and intergroup mistrust. Personality and Social
         Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1295-1311. Abstract     PDF

Chambers, J. R., Baron, R. S., & Inman, M. L. (2006). Misperceptions in intergroup conflict: Disagreeing about what we disagree
         about. Psychological Science, 17, 38-45.  Abstract     PDF

Chambers, J. R., & Windschitl, P. D. (2004). Biases in social comparative judgments: The role of nonmotivated factors in
         above-average and comparative-optimism effects. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 813-838. Abstract     PDF

Windschitl, P. D., & Chambers, J. R. (2004). The dud-alternative effect in likelihood judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: 
         Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 198-215. Abstract     PDF

Chambers, J. R., Windschitl, P. D., & Suls, J. (2003). Egocentrism, event  frequency, and comparative optimism: When what happens
         frequently is “More likely to happen to me.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1343-1356.     Abstract     PDF