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Education

• Ph. D. Personality and Social Psychology (2007), University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA


• B. A. Psychology with Honors (2001), Magna Cum Laude, Winona State University, Winona, MN

Academic and Professional Experience

• Associate Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (2013 - Present)


• Assistant Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (2007 - 2013)


• Graduate Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa (2001 - 2007)

Selected Publications

• Krizan, Z., & Gibbons, F.X. (Eds.)(in press). Communal functions of social comparison. Cambridge University Press.


• Krizan, Z., & Sweeny, K. (in press). Causes and consequences of expectation trajectories: "High" on optimism in a public referendum. Psychological Science.


• Sweeny, K. & Krizan, Z. (in press). Sobering up: A quantitative review of temporal declines in optimism. Psychological Bulletin.


• Bruchmann, K., Suls, J., Lee, S., Rose, J. P., Krizan, Z., & Windschitl, P. D. (in press). Is the non-selective superiority bias indestructible? Limits and behavioral implications. Social Psychological and Personality Science.


• Stieger, S., & Krizan, Z. (in press). Cultural influences on number preferences: Christmas and grading system. Psychological Record.


• Krizan, Z., & Johar, O. (2012).Envy divides the two faces of narcissism. Journal of Personality, 80, 1415-1451.


• Krizan, Z., & Bushman, B. (2011). Better than my loved ones: Social comparison tendencies among narcissists. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 212-216.


• Suls, J., Chambers, J.R., Krizan, Z., Mortensen, C. R., Koestner, B., & Bruchmann, K. (2010). Testing four explanations 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.


• Krizan, Z. (2010). Synthesizer 1.0: A varying coefficient meta-analytic tool. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 863-870.


• Krizan, Z., Miller, J. C., & Johar, O. (2010). Wishful thinking in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Psychological Science, 21, 140-146.


• Windschitl, P.D., Smith, A. R., Rose, J. P., & Krizan. Z. (2010). The desirability bias in predictions: Going optimistic without leaving realism. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 111, 33-47.


• Krizan, Z., & Windschitl, P.D. (2009). Wishful thinking about the future: Does desire bias optimism? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 1-17


• Krian, Z., & Suls, J. (2009). Implicit self-esteem in the context of trait models of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 46 , 659-663.


• Krizan, Z. (2008). What is implicit about implicit self-esteem? Journal of Research in Personality, 42,1635-1640.


• Krizan, Z., & Suls, J. (2008). Losing Sight of Oneself in the Above-Average Effect: When Egocentrism, Focalism and Group Diffuseness Collide. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: 44, 929-942.


• Windschitl, P.D., Conybeare, D., & Krizan, Z. (2008). Direct-comparison judgements: When and why above-and-below average effects reverse. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 182-200.


• Krizan, Z., & Suls, J. (2008). Are implicit and explicit measures of self-esteem related? A meta-analysis for the Name-Letter Test. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 521-531.


• Krizan, Z., & Windschitl, P.D. (2007). Team allegiance can lead to both optimistic and pessimistic predictions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 327-333.


• Krizan, Z., & Windschitl, P.D. (2007). The influence of outcome desirability on optimism. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 95-121.


• Krizan, Z., & Baron, R.S. (2007). Group polarization and choice-dilemmas: How important is self-categorization? European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 191-201.


• Windschitl, P.D., & Krizan, Z. (2005). Contingent approaches to making likelihood judgements about polychotomous cases: The influence of task factors. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 18, 281-303.


• Suls, J., & Krizan, Z. (2005). On the relationships between explicit and implicit global self-esteem and personality. In Marsh, H., Craven, R.G., & McInerney, D.M. (Eds.), The New Frontiers of Self Research (Vol. 2). Greenwich, CT: Information Age

Manuscripts Under Review

• Johar, O., & Krizan, Z. (2012). Envy threatens core human needs.


• Krizan, Z., Rose, J. P., Yang, Y., & Zhang, J., & Miller, J.C. (2012). Descriptive and prescriptive affect norms, culture, and well-being.


• Lannin, D., Guyll, M., Krizan, Z., & Madon, S. (2012). Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: Different ways of being unhelpful.


• Miller, J.C. & Krizan, Z. (2012). Incidental movement promotes positive affect (regardless of whether you expect it or not).


• Zell, E., & Krizan, Z. (2012). Do people have accurate insight into their abilities? A meta-synthesis.

Manuscripts In Preparation

• Krizan, Z., & Johar, O. (2012). Narcissitic rage.


• Krizan, Z., et al. (2012). How social influence strategies help save the earth: A field experiment.


• Krizan, Z., Miller, J.C., & Watson, D. (2012). The late night personality: Impulsivity, organization, and adjustment.

Awards and Honors

• Ealy Achievement in Teaching Award (2011). College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University.


• Ealy Career Excellence in Research Award (2010). Department of Psychology, Iowa State University.


• LAS Small Grant [$750, $1250, $1000](2007, 2008, 2009). College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Small Grant, Iowa State University.


• The Kenneth Spence Award (2007). Department of Psychology, University of Iowa.


• The Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award for Experimental Psychology (2006). Department of Psychology, University of Iowa


• Summer Dissertation Fellowship [$3,000](2006). Graduate College, University of Iowa