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Joachim I. Krueger

Joachim I. Krueger

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Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
20007
World Ranking
4500
National Ranking
2497

Overview

Joachim I. Krueger is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of Psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers several main topics, notably the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, as well as Cultural Differences and Values.

Joachim I. Krueger has contributed numerous publications to various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The American Journal of Psychology
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Inquiry
  • Genome biology

Some of the most recent papers authored or co-authored by Krueger include:

  • "Deciding what to replicate: A decision model for replication study selection under resource and knowledge constraints." (2021) published in Psychological Methods
  • "Social game theory: Preferences, perceptions, and choices" (2020) published in European Review of Social Psychology
  • "Strategic Thinking: A Random Walk Into the Rabbit Hole" (2021) published in Collabra Psychology
  • "The data-hypothesis relationship" (2021) published in Genome biology
  • "Feeling good without doing good: Comment on Orth and Robins (2022)." (2022) published in American Psychologist

Frequent collaborators of Joachim I. Krueger include:

  • David Joachim Grüning
  • Patrick R. Heck
  • Johannes Ullrich
  • André P. Dieskau
  • Jorma Hassfeld

This profile reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Krueger's work, bridging psychological theory and practice with social and behavioral economic frameworks. Their research contributions are documented with a combination of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in a variety of well-regarded venues within the field of psychology and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Does high self-esteem cause better performance, interpersonal success, happiness, or healthier lifestyles?

    RF Baumeister;JD Campbell;JI Krueger;KD Vohs

  • The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.

    Peter Fischer;Joachim I. Krueger;Tobias Greitemeyer;Claudia Vogrincic

  • Social Projection to Ingroups and Outgroups: A Review and Meta-Analysis:

    Jordan M. Robbins;Joachim I. Krueger

  • The Truly False Consensus Effect: An Ineradicable and Egocentric Bias in Social Perception

    Joachim Krueger;Russell W. Clement

  • Towards a balanced social psychology: causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition

    Joachim I. Krueger;David C. Funder

  • Exploding the self-esteem myth.

    Roy F. Baumeister;Jennifer D. Campbell;Joachim I. Krueger;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • On the Perception of Social Consensus

    Joachim Krueger

  • Developmental Expectations for the Self and Most Other People: Age Grading in Three Functions of Social Comparison

    Jutta Heckhausen;Joachim Krueger

  • Unskilled, unaware, or both? The better-than-average heuristic and statistical regression predict errors in estimates of own performance.

    Joachim Krueger;Ross A. Mueller

  • Enhancement Bias in Descriptions of Self and Others

    Joachim Krueger

  • Social psychology: A field in search of a center

    Joachim I. Krueger;David C. Funder

  • Use of categorical and individuating information in making inferences about personality.

    Joachim Krueger;Myron Rothbart

  • Personal beliefs and cultural stereotypes about racial characteristics.

    Joachim Krueger

  • Null hypothesis significance testing. On the survival of a flawed method.

    Joachim Krueger

  • Social categorization moderates social projection.

    Russell W. Clement;Joachim Krueger

  • From social projection to social behaviour

    Joachim I. Krueger

  • The Long Way From α-Error Control to Validity Proper Problems With a Short-Sighted False-Positive Debate

    Klaus Fiedler;Florian Kutzner;Joachim I. Krueger

  • The Projective Perception of the Social World

    Joachim Krueger

  • The Psychology (and Economics) of Trust

    Anthony M. Evans;Joachim I. Krueger

  • Two Egocentric Sources of the Decision to Vote: The Voter's Illusion and the Belief in Personal Relevance

    Melissa Acevedo;Joachim I. Krueger

  • A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences. Commentaries. Author's reply

    Herbert Gintis;George Ainslie;Larry Arnhart;R. Alexander Bentley

  • "The truly false consensus effect: An ineradicable and egocentric bias in social perception": Correction.

    Joachim Krueger;Russell W. Clement

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Dieter Frey
Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
David C. Funder
David C. Funder University of California, Riverside
Tobias Greitemeyer
Tobias Greitemeyer University of Innsbruck
Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Andrew M. Colman
Andrew M. Colman University of Leicester

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