Justin Kruger

15.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
65 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Justin Kruger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin Kruger has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 20 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in Justin Kruger's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (20 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers). Justin Kruger is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (20 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers). Justin Kruger collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Justin Kruger's co-authors include David Dunning, Kerri L. Johnson, Joyce Ehrlinger, Derrick Wirtz, Thomas Gilovich, Christie Napa Scollon, Ed Diener, Jeremy Burrus, Nicholas Epley and Leaf Van Boven and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Justin Kruger

61 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recogniz... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 1999 2003 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
    1999 4.3k citations Justin Kruger, David Dunning Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  2. Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
    1999 1.0k citations Justin Kruger, David Dunning Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  3. Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence
    2003 817 citations David Dunning, Kerri L. Johnson et al. Current Directions in Psychological Science profile →

Peers

Justin Kruger
James Jaccard United States
Kevin R. Murphy United States
Chip Heath United States
Duane T. Wegener United States
Ellen J. Langer United States
David Dunning United States
Leandre R. Fabrigar Canada
Ralph L. Rosnow United States
Gary H. McClelland United States
Lance J. Rips United States
James Jaccard United States
Justin Kruger
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Justin Kruger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Justin Kruger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Justin Kruger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Justin Kruger. Justin Kruger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kruger, Justin, Adam W. Koenig, & Simone D’Amico. (2023). Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX): System Design and Preflight Verification. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 60(6). 1755–1777. 16 indexed citations
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Koenig, Adam W., et al.. (2021). ARTMS: Enabling Autonomous Distributed Angles-Only Orbit Estimation for Spacecraft Swarms. 4282–4289. 6 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin, et al.. (2019). Fall if it Lifts your Teammate: A Novel Type of Candidate Manipulation. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1431–1439.
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Kruger, Justin, et al.. (2018). Too Much of a Good Thing: Insensitivity to Rate of Consumption Leads to Unforeseen Satiation. KiltHub Repository. 1 indexed citations
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Endriss, Ulle, et al.. (2014). Empirical Analysis of Aggregation Methods for Collective Annotation. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1533–1542. 10 indexed citations
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Williams, Elanor F., David Dunning, & Justin Kruger. (2013). The hobgoblin of consistency: Algorithmic judgment strategies underlie inflated self-assessments of performance.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104(6). 976–994. 27 indexed citations
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Galak, Jeff, Justin Kruger, & George Loewenstein. (2011). Is variety the spice of life? It all depends on the rate of consumption. Judgment and Decision Making. 6(3). 230–238. 9 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin, et al.. (2009). Why Calling Attention to Success Seems to Invite Failure. ACR North American Advances.
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Ehrlinger, Joyce, et al.. (2007). Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 105(1). 98–121. 480 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin, et al.. (2006). Intentions in teasing: When "just kidding" just isn't good enough.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 90(3). 412–425. 59 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin & Kenneth Savitsky. (2006). On the Genesis of Inflated (and Deflated) Judgments of Responsibility: Egocentrism Revisited. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin, Derrick Wirtz, & Dale T. Miller. (2005). Counterfactual Thinking and the First Instinct Fallacy.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 88(5). 725–735. 67 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin, et al.. (2005). Egocentrism over e-mail: Can we communicate as well as we think?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 89(6). 925–936. 250 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin & Kenneth Savitsky. (2004). The “reign of error” in social psychology: On the real versus imagined consequences of problem-focused research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(3). 349–350. 2 indexed citations
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Epley, Nicholas & Justin Kruger. (2004). When what you type isn’t what they read: The perseverance of stereotypes and expectancies over e-mail. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 41(4). 414–422. 65 indexed citations
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Windschitl, Paul D., Justin Kruger, & Ericka Nus Simms. (2003). The Influence of Egocentrism and Focalism on People's Optimism in Competitions: When What Affects Us Equally Affects Me More.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85(3). 389–408. 160 indexed citations
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Dunning, David, Kerri L. Johnson, Joyce Ehrlinger, & Justin Kruger. (2003). Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 12(3). 83–87. 817 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kruger, Justin. (1999). Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 77(2). 221–232. 496 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin & Thomas Gilovich. (1999). "Naive cynicism" in everyday theories of responsibility assessment: On biased assumptions of bias.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 76(5). 743–753. 77 indexed citations
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Kruger, Justin & David Dunning. (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(6). 1121–1134. 1022 indexed citations breakdown →

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