Justin Brienza

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 Applied and developmental psychology, Cognitive and computational psychology, Psychology

[2026] Assessing Crisis Leadership. Brienza, Justin P., Collins, Michael D. and Langdon, Rebecca (2026). Assessing Crisis Leadership. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 34 (3) e70205, 3. doi: 10.1111/1468-5973.70205 [2026] Teaching transformational wisdom: Toward a pedagogy of wise leadership. Brienza, Justin Peter, Manik, Hardo Firmana Given Grace and Intezari, Ali (2026). Teaching transformational wisdom: Toward a pedagogy of wise leadership. The Palgrave Handbook of Transformational Wisdom. (pp. 267-297) edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Arezoo Soleimani Dashtaki. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-16951-8_11 [2025] Wisdom in action: a call to bridge fields in psychology (and beyond) to solve complex world problems. Glück, Judith and Brienza, Justin P. (202