Dr Justin Brienza
Dr

Justin Brienza

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Background

Justin joined UQ Business School in 2020, after teaching at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. His teaching is focused on Organisational Behaviour, Manager Skiils and Communication, and Wise Leadership. Justin earned his Honors Bachelor of Science with a double degree in Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence and Psychology at the University of Toronto, and his Masters and PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Waterloo.

Justin's principle research interest is in understanding how people reason through complex social problems, with interest in reducing bias and developing and practicing wisdom and balance. Justin's work has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Journal of Intelligence, Nature Communications, Social and Personality Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, as well as the latest edition of the renown Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom. These studies have examined wisdom at interpersonal, group, organizational, and societal levels, in topics such as cooperation, social economic status, teamwork, intergroup bias, and leadership. Ongoing projects include studies on the dynamics of wise leadership, training for wisdom (Business and Army Leadership), media attention and science denialism, prejudice in artificial intelligence, self-sabotage, and gender pay-gap denialism.

Justin has presented his research at international conferences such as the Academy of Management, International Association of Conflict Management, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was presented with the Kellogg School of Management's Dispute Resolution Center Scholar Award. Justin serves as peer reviewer for journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Intelligence, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Journal of Cognitive Development. Justin's work has been featured in popular media outlets such as TIME, NewsWeek, and Sciencemag.com, and one of his articles is in the top 10 most upvoted social psychology papers on Reddit.

***Applications for HDR/PhD student supervision are welcome***

Courses taught:

MGTS1601: Organisational Behaviour

MGTS2606: Manager Skills/Contemporary Business Communication and Organisation

MGTS7618: Wise Leadership

RBUS6933: Research Design for Honours

Availability

Dr Justin Brienza is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Applied and developmental psychology Cognitive and computational psychology Psychology

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of Waterloo

Search Professor Justin Brienza’s works on UQ eSpace

43 works between 2017 and 2026
All (43) Book (1) Journal Article (26) Other Outputs (1) Conference Publication (9) Book Chapter (5) Newspaper Article (1)

41 - 43 of 43 works

2017

Journal Article

Social class and wise reasoning about interpersonal conflicts across regions, persons and situations

Brienza, Justin P. and Grossmann, Igor (2017). Social class and wise reasoning about interpersonal conflicts across regions, persons and situations. Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, 284 (1869) 20171870, 20171870. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1870

Social class and wise reasoning about interpersonal conflicts across regions, persons and situations

2017

Journal Article

Employee age alters the effects of justice on emotional exhaustion and organizational deviance

Brienza, Justin P. and Bobocel, D. Ramona (2017). Employee age alters the effects of justice on emotional exhaustion and organizational deviance. Frontiers in Psychology, 8 (MAR) 479, 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00479

Employee age alters the effects of justice on emotional exhaustion and organizational deviance

2017

Journal Article

Wise deliberation sustains cooperation

Grossmann, Igor, Brienza, Justin P. and Bobocel, D. Ramona (2017). Wise deliberation sustains cooperation. Nature Human Behaviour, 1 (3) 0061, 1-6. doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0061

Wise deliberation sustains cooperation

Availability

Dr Justin Brienza is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Wisdom and Wise Reasoning

    I welcome HDR applicants eager to pursue research in the area of wisdom and wise reasoning in work and social contexts.

    Examples may include topics in leadership, conflict resolution (e.g., intergroup relations, interdisciplinary and ethno-cultural diversity management), perceptions of wisdom, or artificial intelligence, but student proposals are also welcome!

    Applicants with honours or masters research degree in *social or organisational psychological sciences* are preferred.

    Applicants must have demonstrated skills in:

    1. conceptualization and theory development

    2. survey methodology (Qualitrics) and experimental design

    3. study pre-registration

    4. sampling and study contextualization

    5. data analysis (R and SPSS)

    6. data visualization (graphs, simple-slopes, heat maps, violin and cloud plotting)

    7. APA-format reporting

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Exploring Counterproductive Knowledge Behaviour in the Workplace

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ali Intezari, Dr Richard O'Quinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Rightsholders beyond stakeholders: Theorising Indigenous transformational actions and socio-ecological justice to resist dispossession and resolve sustainability-related conflicts

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ali Intezari

Completed supervision

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