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  • Epley, N., Waytz, A., & Cacioppo, J. T. (May, 2007). On seeing human. Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
  • Epley, N., & Converse, B. (March, 2007). Vulcan gods would have pointy ears. Paper presented at the Social Psychologists of Chicago Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
  • Converse, B. & Epley, N. (January, 2007). With God on our side: Egocentric biases are stronger intuiting God's beliefs than other humans' beliefs. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.
  • Myrseth, K., & Epley, N. (January, 2007). Putting the self in self-presentation: Egocentric biases in strategic presentations to others. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.
  • Waytz, A., & Epley, N. (January, 2007). Creating social support: Anticipated isolation increases spiritual belief. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Memphis, TN.
  • Gneezy, A., & Epley, N. (December, 2006). Doing more, doing less: Asymmetric consequences of exceeding versus falling short of promises. Paper presented at the Affect, Motivation, and Decision Making Conference, Ein Boqueq, The Dead Sea, Israel.
  • Alter, A., Oppenheimer, D., Epley, N., & Norwick, R. (November, 2006). Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytical thought. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Caruso, E., Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (November, 2006). The trouble with thinking about the thoughts of others: Cognitive versus empathic perspective taking in strategic interaction. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Gneezy, A., & Epley, N. (November, 2006). Doing more, doing less: Asymmetric consequences of exceeding versus falling short of promises. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Li, Y., & Epley, N. (November, 2006). When the best is saved for last: Serial position effects in choice. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Myrseth, K., & Epley, N. (November, 2006). Putting the self in self-presentation: Egocentric biases in strategic presentations to others. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Zhang, Y., & Epley, N. (November, 2006). Givers attend to costs, receivers to benefits: Egocentric biases in the evaluation of favors. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Caruso, E, Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (August, 2006). The costs and benefits of undoing egocentric responsibility assessments in groups. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, CA.
  • Li, Y., & Epley, N. (June, 2006). Serial position effects in choice. Paper presented at the Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Epley, N. (January, 2006). Mirror, mirror on the wall: Perceptual self-enhancement in self-recognition. Paper presented at the Self & Identity Preconference, Palm Springs, CA.
     
  • Epley, N., Caruso, E., & Bazerman, M. (January, 2006). When perspective taking increases taking: Reactive Egoism in social interaction. Paper presented at "Getting over yourself: New evidence on the boundaries and consequences of projection and perspective taking," D. Ames (Chair). Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
     
  • Epley, N. (May, 2005). Impression Detection: Anticipating others impressions of us. Invited paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
     
  • Caruso, E., Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (May, 2005). Increasing egoism by reducing egocentrism: Divergent effects of perspective taking on judgment and behavior in groups. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
     
  • Rapien, E., & Epley, N. (May, 2005). Mirror, mirror on the wall: Perceptual self-enhancement in the recognition of one’s own attractiveness. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
     
  • Epley, N. (March, 2005). The art and science of impression detection. Invited paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Akalis, S. (February, 2005). Detecting versus enhancing anthropomorphic agents: The divergent effects of fear and loneliness. Paper presented in “Other minds? How people perceive non-human agent,” T. Chartrand (Chair), Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Caruso, E., Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (February, 2005). Increasing egoism by reducing egocentrism: Divergent effects of perspective taking on judgment and behavior in groups. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Norwick, R., & Epley, N. (February, 2005). Experience, confidence, and the selection of heuristics in judgment. Paper presented in "Metacognition and Social Judgment." R. Petty & Z. Tormala (Chairs). Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Rapien, E., & Epley, N. (February, 2005). Mirror, mirror on the wall: Self-enhancement in the recognition of one’s own attractiveness. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Reynolds, A., & Epley, N. (February, 2005). Creating god in our own image: Misattributing incidental mood to God’s personality. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (October, 2004). Tales of thinking while nodding and drinking: Resurrecting the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. Paper presented in “Advances in the investigation and application of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.” L. Nelson (Chair). Association for Consumer Research, Portland, OR.
     
  • Epley, N., & Preston, J. (October, 2004). The explanatory utility of valuable beliefs. Paper presented in “On the psychology of culture: Selection mechanisms in culture and the marketplace of ideas.” C. Heath (Chair). Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Fort Worth, TX.
     
  • Epley, N. (September, 2004). Outdone but not outgrown: Reconsidering differences in egocentrism between children and adults. Paper presented at the New England Social Psychological Association, Storrs, CT.
     
  • Epley, N., Idson, L., & Mak. D (July, 2004). Departing from versus returning to the status quo: Income framing, spending, and saving. Paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Philadelphia, PA.
     
  • Epley, N. (June, 2004). Public policy implications of income framing. Paper presented at The Sixth CU-Boulder Invitational Choice Symposium, Estes, CO.
     
  • Preston, J., & Epley, N. (May, 2004). The explanatory utility of valuable beliefs. Paper presented at the Conference on Selection in the Marketplace of Ideas and Culture, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC.
     
  • Norwick, R. J. & Epley, N. (March, 2004). Differential effects of alcohol consumption on confidence. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society, Scottsdale, AZ.
     
  • Caruso, E. M., & Epley, N. (January, 2004). Hot hands and cool machines: Perceived intentionality in the prediction of streaks. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX. ***Winner of Student Poster Award***
     
  • Preston, J., & Epley, N. (January, 2004). The explanatory utility of meaningful beliefs. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
     
  • Stalnaker, M., & Epley, N. (January, 2004). Convenient forgetting: Memory bias and maintenance of the planning fallacy. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
     
  • Epley, N., Idson, L., & Mak, D. (November, 2003). The impact of framing on spending and saving: Why people don’t spend tax rebates. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, BC.
     
  • Caruso, E., Epley, N., & Bazerman, M. (November, 2003). Leader of the packed: The costs and benefits of perspective taking in group tasks. Poster presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Vancouver, BC.
     
  • Epley, N., Keysar, B., VanBoven, L, & Gilovich, T. (October, 2003). Understanding others by adjusting from ourselves. Paper presented in “Everything is relative! Comparison Processes in Social Judgment,” T. Mussweiler (Chair). Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, MA.
     
  • Kozak, M., & Epley, N. (February, 2003). Exposing the Imposter Phenomena. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
     
  • Morewedge, C., Epley, N., & Keysar, B. (February, 2003). Egocentric reasoning in children and their parents. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
     
  • Norwick, R., & Epley, N. (February, 2003). Experiential determinants of confidence. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (November, 2002). Are adjustments insufficient? Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Kansas City, MO.
     
  • Norwick, R., & Epley, N. (November, 2002). Confidence as inference from subjective experience. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Kansas City, MO.
     
  • Epley, N., & Keysar, B. (February, 2002). Perspective taking as egocentric adjustment. Paper presented in “Perspectives on Perspective Taking,” N. Epley (Chair). Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.
     
  • Savitsky, K., Van Boven, L, Epley, N, & Wight, W. (February, 2002). Unpacking Overclaiming. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, GA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Dunning, D. (November, 2001). On the inverse relationship between confidence and calibration in self and social prediction. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Orlando, FL.
     
  • Epley, N., & Kruger, J. (February, 2001). Expectancies in e-mail communication: When what you type isn’t what they read. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
     
  • Savitsky, K., Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (February, 2001). Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps. Paper presented in “Egocentrism in Everyday Judgment,” K. Savitsky (Chair). Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
     
  • Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (November, 2000). The rebirth of anchoring as effortful adjustment. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Van Boven, L, & Epley, N. (November, 2000). The unpacking effect in evaluative judgments. Paper presented at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, New Orleans, LA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Dunning, D. (June, 2000). Self and social predictions: Sometimes knowing more means predicting less. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society, Miami Beach, FL.
     
  • Dunning, D. & Epley, N. (October, 1999). Do flattering comparisons of self with others involve misjudgments of the self or mispredictions of others? Paper presented in “Mispredicting the Self,” D. Dunning (Chair). Society for Experimental Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO.
     
  • Gilovich, T., Epley, N., & Savitsky, K., (October, 1999). Is it as bad as we fear? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, & mishaps. Paper presented in “Mispredicting the Self,” D. Dunning (Chair). Society for Experimental Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO.
     
  • Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (June, 1999). Empathic Ignorance: The consequences of failing to appreciate others’ empathy. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO.
     
  • Kruger, J., Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (June, 1999). Egocentrism over e-mail. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO.
     
  • Epley, N. (April, 1998). Increasing the influence: Automaticity in conformity behavior. Paper presented at the Cognitive Studies Research Forum, Ithaca, NY.
     
  • Epley, N., Savitsky, K., & Gilovich, T. (April, 1998). "Is it really as bad as we think? Overestimating the impact of our social blunders." Invited paper presented at Empire State Social Psychology conference, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
     
  • Van Boven, L., & Epley, N. (April, 1998). When the whole is less than the sum of its parts; Implications of Support Theory for affective forecasting and judgments of blame. Paper presented at Empire State Social Psychology conference, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
     
  • Epley, N., & Dunning, D. (February, 1998). Errors in self or social psychology?; Investigating people’s predictions of their own and others’ behaviors. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
     
  • Savitsky, K., Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (February, 1998). Overestimating the impact: Are our social blunders judged as harshly as we think? Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
     
  • Epley, N., & Gilovich, T. (June, 1997). Direct, non-conscious priming effects on conformity behavior. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

 

Invited Presentations

  • Cornell University, Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center, 2006
  • University of Chicago, Divinity School, 2006
  • Harvard University, Business School, 2006
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, 2006
  • Indiana University, Department of Psychology, 2005
  • University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 2005
     
  • University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 2005
     
  • Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, 2004
     
  • Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 2004
     
  • University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Decision Processes, 2004
     
  • Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, 2004
     
  • Dartmouth College, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 2003
     
  • University of Illinois, Department of Psychology, 2003
     
  • University of Virginia, Department of Psychology, 2003
     
  • Cedar Rapids Prairie High School, Commencement Speaker (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 2002
     
  • Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, 2002
     
  • Greater Boston Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Keynote Address, 2002
     
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business, 2002
     
  • Northeastern University, Department of Psychology, 2002
     
  • University of British Columbia, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2002
     
  • University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 2002
     
  • University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 2002
     
  • University of Iowa, Department of Psychology, 2002
     
  • Yale University, Department of Psychology, 2002
     
  • Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 2001
     
  • Harvard University, Program on Negotiations, 2001
     
  • Harvard University, Political Psychology and Behavior Research Seminar, 2001
     
  • Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 2001
     
  • State University of New York—Buffalo, Department of Psychology, 2001
     
  • University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 2001
     
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Psychology, 2001
     
  • Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • Ohio University, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • Princeton University, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • Queens University, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Psychology, 2000
     
  • Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Psychology, 2000
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