Corey Guenther, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Phone # (402) 280-3165
E-mail: coreyguenther@creighton.edu

Teaches Courses in:
    
Psychology of Personality; Research Methods and Statistics; Introductory Psychology

Research interests:
 
My primary research examines how various motivational and cognitive mechanisms interact during the development and maintenance of one’s self-concept. A second area of interest involves exploring how individuals’ naive theories about the social world influence their judgments and predictions for future events.

Representative Publications:

Alicke, M. D., Guenther, C. L., & Zell, E. (2012) Social self-analysis: Constructing and maintaining personal identity. In M.R. Leary & J.P. Tangney (Eds.), Handbook of Self and Identity, Second Edition. NY: Guilford.

Alicke, M. D., & Guenther, C. L. (2011). Self-enhancement and self-protection in social judgment. In M. D. Alicke. & C. Sedikides (Eds.), Handbook of Self Enhancement and Self-Protection. NY: Guilford.

Guenther, C. L., & Alicke, M. D. (2010). Deconstructing the better-than-average effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 755-770.

Guenther, C. L., & Alicke, M. D. (2008). Self-enhancement and belief perseverance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 706-712.

Markman, K. D., & Guenther, C. L. (2007). Psychological momentum: Intuitive physics and naïve beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 800-812.