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Kenneth Savitsky

15 works· latest 2010· 2 institutionscluster: provisional

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The closeness-communication bias: Increased egocentrism among friends versus strangers

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology·2010·5 authors

162citations

Knowing Too Much

Psychological Science·2008·4 authors

41citations

“Don't Tell Me, I Don't Want to Know”: Understanding People's Reluctance to Obtain Medical Diagnostic Information1

Journal of Applied Social Psychology·2006·3 authors

69citations

The “reign of error” in social psychology: On the real versus imagined consequences of problem-focused research

Behavioral and Brain Sciences·2004·2 authors

5citations

The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology·2003·2 authors

147citations

Behavioral confirmation in the interrogation room: On the dangers of presuming guilt.

Law and Human Behavior·2003·3 authors

358citations

Like Goes with Like: The Role of Representativeness in Erroneous and Pseudo-Scientific Beliefs

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2002·2 authors·chapter

46citations

Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2001·3 authors

158citations

The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2000·3 authors

531citations

The Spotlight Effect and the Illusion of Transparency

Current Directions in Psychological Science·1999·2 authors

174citations

"What, Me Worry?": Arousal, Misattribution, and the Effect of Temporal Distance on Confidence

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·1998·4 authors

135citations

The illusion of transparency: Biased assessments of others' ability to read one's emotional states.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·1998·3 authors

518citations

The illusion of transparency: Biased assessments of others' ability to read one's emotional states.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·1998·3 authors

149citations

Remembering and Regretting: The Zeigarnik Effect and the Cognitive Availability of Regrettable Actions and Inactions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·1997·3 authors

82citations

When doing better means feeling worse: The effects of categorical cutoff points on counterfactual thinking and satisfaction.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·1997·2 authors

124citations