How to Outsmart Yourself
Psychology Today,
Self-deception is real and widespread. Try these exercises to beat the self-deception trap.
Self-deception is real and widespread. Try these exercises to beat the self-deception trap.
The University of Michigan proudly announces the good news about Ig Nobel Prize winners David Dunning [pictured here] and…
(Photo: Fancycrave1/Pixabay) John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, “If…
Of all the behavioral finance, cognitive errors, and human psychology I have studied, the one that creates the most confusion…
John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, “If you are really, really stupid…
Social psychologists David Dunning of the University of Michigan and Justin Kruger of New York University, whose research…
LISTEN TO DAVID DUNNING NOW! In the most innocent interpretation, suggesting someone should ‘do their own research’ is a…
Good and bad, healthy and toxic, clean and dirty, right and wrong. These are the kinds of distinctions the public, pundits, and…
Historical evidence is, or at least can be, highly valuable and highly revealing. But it's only evidence, and all too often…
Various studies have found a disconnect between self-reported and behavioral measures of reasoning habits.
We humans aren’t very good at assessing true leadership qualities and gravitate towards arrogant confidence in those in charge.
The Scite organization analyzed some of what happened to the research papers that won Ig Nobel Prizes. Scite published their…
For years, I’ve been teaching a fake graph. In pretty much every course I teach, on some day when students seem discouraged or…
Ignore the people misconstruing their expertise and offering false certainty.
I am utterly fascinated by the concept of metacognition — how we evaluate and measure our own skills and abilities. This is the…
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This blog is designed to support my talk at SMACCUltimate1. The conference is held…
This is very funny: [T]he first daughter and her husband remain psychologically mysterious, at least to me. Why don’t they have…
Wikipedia defines the Dunning-Kruger effect as: a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and…
A jornalista Nil Moretto, do canal Cadê a Chave?, tuitou a respeito da necessidade de cientistas e especialistas se comunicarem…
ou may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: …
We’re not always the kind, sensible, good-natured creature we’d like ourselves to be. It’s a question that’s reverberated…
From victim blaming to vanity, schadenfreude, and moral hypocrisy, we all have some twisted thinking to overcome. It’s a…
C’est une question qui résonne à travers les âges : les êtres humains sont-ils des créatures imparfaites, essentiellement…
HERE is a classic paper, introducing what is now known as the the Dunning-Kruger effect, after psychologists David Dunning and…
It's a question that's reverberated through the ages – are we humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured…
By Christian…
Even the most well-intentioned person can lead you astray. Here’s how to spot the bad tips. The science of career success is…
By guest blogger Tom…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect was first proposed in a classic 1999 paper (Kruger and Dunning, 1999).1 People suffering from this…
By somewhat popular demand, here’s a video of “The Dunning-Kruger Song”: The song honors the research study “Unskilled and…
Much talked about these days in the media, the unskilled-and-unaware phenomenon was mused upon since, as they say, immemorial…
At the time we began planning #DFTB17, I was eager to speak on the concept of Failure. I’d just failed yet another college…
Keeping score of ‘friends’ on Facebook and Instagram may be harmful to your health.
Despite humility being good for business, it’s extremely difficult for CEOs to be genuinely humble.
Some people just love pointing out mistakes and errors made by others. Why? What do they get from it?Pedants are literally…
Research shows your friends' storytelling abilities might not be as straightforward as they perceive them to be.
On January 6, 1995, a large five-foot-six 270-pound middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t…
I don’t know how much of what I “learned” in medical school I have since forgotten. It is a lot. Probably more than I remember.
Italian physicist Andrea Rapisarda presents his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about The Peter Principle, at the Ig Nobel show…
Em 1999, os pesquisadores Justin Kruger e David Dunning, da Universidade de Cornell, publicaram um trabalho seminal (com 2.872…
On Twitter, Facebook and sometimes — horrifyingly — in real life, you may have noticed something this week: Suddenly, everyone…
Something funny happens in the days leading up to a big snowstorm: A lot of people who know next to nothing about snowstorms…
Every now and then, an image of a sidewalk with a specialized "texting lane" makes the rounds on my Facebook news feed. Such…
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: It's one of those sort of things where, once you know what it is, you'll see it everywhere. The Dunning…
The famous Dunning-Kruger effect, in the words of Dunning and Kruger, is a bias where: People tend to hold overly favorable…
John Cleese, the tallest and angriest of the Monty Pythons, tells here, in this video, of his controlled, venomous glee at…
This article first appeared in the December 2014 issue of the RACGP Publication Good Practice. I have linked to PubMed for the…
[This—more or less—is the text of a keynote talk I delivered last week in Atlanta, at the 2014 DLF Forum: the annual gathering…
Ig Nobel Prize-winning Cornell psychology professor David Dunning — he of the Dunning-Kruger effect — tells the majestic story…
Dunning-Kruger Etkisi Nedir? Neyi Bildiğimizi ve Neyi Bi
The Gist: Overestimation of our level of mastery is common and is referred to as the Dunning-Kruger effect [1-3]. This effect…
People want to feel good about themselves. From the time children are young, they are told to believe in themselves and be…
Nie tylko 2011 i nie tylko psychologia Przeciętny człowiek wyobraża sobie naukowca na dwa stereotypowe sposoby. Jako śmiertelnie…
Robin Hanson has had another stab at the oft-quoted paper by Kruger and Dunning, Unskilled and Unaware of It. The first couple…
Mais um período de eleições presidenciais no Brasil. Infelizmente, apesar de um primeiro turno de eleições bem movimentado, com…
If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of…
Bora at A Blog Around the Clock posted a well written piece about expertise in journalism yesterday. He describes a division…
By Daniel Simons, on May 23rd…
I’ve just re-read the classic study “Unskilled and unaware of it” which established that when we’re incompetent at something we’r…