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 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

 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University (2007 – present)

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

 Selected Publications

Krizan, Z. (in press). What is implicit about implicit self-esteem? Journal of Research in Personality. 

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 judgments: 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 judgments 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

 Krizan, Z., & Suls, J. (under review). Implicit self-esteem in the context of  trait models of personality.

 Krizan, Z., & Gibbons, F. X. (Eds.) (edited volume in preparation). Communal motives in social comparison.

Krizan, Z., & Windschitl, P. D. (invited paper under review). Wishful thinking about the future: How desires bias optimism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

Windschitl, P. D., Smith, A. R., Rose, J. P., & Krizan, Z. (under review). The desirability bias in predictions: Going optimistic without leaving realism.

Suls, J., Krizan, Z., Chambers, J. R., & Mortensen, R. (under review). The role of group size and focalism in Better- and Worse-than-average effects. Invited resubmission to be  submitted to Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

 Awards and Honors

LAS Small Grant [$750] (2007). 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.

 Outstanding Graduate Student as Mentor Award: Honorable Mention (2006). Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa.

 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2005). Department of Psychology, University of Iowa.

 Scholarly Presentation Award (2002, 2005, 2007). The University of Iowa Student Government, University of  Iowa.

 Travel Funds Award (2002, 2005, 2007). The Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa.

 Honors Commendation in Psychology (2001). Winona State University,   Winona, MN.

 Student Research Travel Award (2001). Winona State University, Winona, MN.

 Outstanding Contribution Award (for services rendered to students as a tutor, 2000). Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, MN.

 Psi Chi Honors Society in Psychology (2000) 

 Tutor of the Year Certificate (2000). Student Support Center, Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, MN.

 Cross-Cultural Scholarship (1999-2001). Winona State University, Winona, MN.

 Service

 Consulting Editor:  Journal of Happiness Studies

 Ad-Hoc Reviewer:   Psychological Science

                                   Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

                                   Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

                                  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

                                  Journal of Research in Personality

                                 Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

                                  Self and Identity

                                  Personality and Individual Differences

                                  Basic and Applied Social Psychology

                                  Management Science

                                  Medical Decision Making

 Teaching

Advanced Social Psychology

Social Psychology Graduate Seminar

 Psychology of Normal Personality (Syllabus)

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Design: : Z Krizan (2007)