Publications

 

Chambers, J. R. (in press). Why the parts are better (or worse) than
          the whole: The unique attributes hypothesis. Psychological Science.

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