David Dunning
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American social psychologist and professor of psychology
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#34
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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Alan Dunning is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a retired professor of psychology at Cornell University. Education He received his BA from Michigan State University in 1982 and PhD from Stanford University in 1986, both in psychology.
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- Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. (1999) (5446)
- Flawed Self-Assessment (2004) (1280)
- Ambiguity and self-evaluation: the role of idiosyncratic trait definitions in self-serving assessments of ability (1989) (936)
- Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence (2003) (919)
- Feeling "holier than thou": are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self- or social prediction? (2000) (663)
- Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent. (2008) (559)
- How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) estimates of performance. (2003) (485)
- The overconfidence effect in social prediction. (1990) (379)
- The Dunning–Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One’s Own Ignorance (2011) (317)
- Evidence for egocentric comparison in social judgment (1996) (291)
- Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself (2005) (285)
- The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011) (260)
- A newer look: Motivated social cognition and the schematic representation of social concepts. (1999) (240)
- The role of construal processes in overconfident predictions about the self and others. (1990) (230)
- A New Look at Motivated Inference: Are Self-Serving Theories of Success a Product of Motivational Forces? (1995) (217)
- Egocentric Definitions of Traits and Abilities in Social Judgment (1992) (197)
- Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications via inquiries about decision processes (1994) (181)
- Self-Image Motives and Consumer Behavior: How Sacrosanct Self-Beliefs Sway Preferences in the Marketplace (2007) (180)
- Trust at zero acquaintance: more a matter of respect than expectation of reward. (2014) (175)
- The child in the eyes of the jury (1990) (159)
- Turning up the contrast: self-enhancement motives prompt egocentric contrast effects in social judgments. (1998) (156)
- Do people trust too much or too little (2009) (151)
- Unskilled and unaware--but why? A reply to Krueger and Mueller (2002). (2002) (146)
- The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people ! (2005) (146)
- Trait Importance and Modifiability as Factors Influencing Self-Assessment and Self-Enhancement Motives (1995) (136)
- The Mixed Blessings of Self-Knowledge in Behavioral Prediction: Enhanced Discrimination but Exacerbated Bias (2006) (133)
- How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance (2013) (130)
- Self-serving prototypes of social categories. (1991) (128)
- The Self in Social Judgment (2013) (121)
- Stereotypes and tacit inference. (1997) (118)
- Depression, realism, and the overconfidence effect : are the sadder wiser when predicting future actions and events ? (1991) (114)
- Self-Affirmations Provide a Broader Perspective on Self-Threat (2015) (113)
- Emotionally unskilled, unaware, and uninterested in learning more: reactions to feedback about deficits in emotional intelligence. (2014) (106)
- Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Underestimation of Owners’ Selling Prices by Buyer’s Agents (2003) (101)
- Automaticity and eyewitness accuracy: a 10- to 12-second rule for distinguishing accurate from inaccurate positive identifications. (2002) (98)
- When Self-Affirmations Reduce Defensiveness: Timing Is Key (2010) (98)
- Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy (2005) (94)
- Construal processes and trait ambiguity: implications for self-peer agreement in personality judgment. (1997) (93)
- Overconfidence Among Beginners: Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing? (2018) (88)
- Trust as a social and emotional act: Noneconomic considerations in trust behavior (2012) (82)
- Unconscious transference and mistaken identity: When a witness misidentifies a familiar but innocent person. (1994) (79)
- When Knowledge Knows No Bounds (2015) (77)
- No good deed goes unquestioned: Cynical reconstruals maintain belief in the power of self-interest ☆ (2011) (77)
- What a Feeling: The Role of Immediate and Anticipated Emotions in Risky Decisions (2013) (76)
- Depression, realism, and the overconfidence effect: are the sadder wiser when predicting future actions and events? (1991) (75)
- Why and when peer prediction is superior to self-prediction: the weight given to future aspiration versus past achievement. (2012) (71)
- What you don't know : The role played by errors of omission in imperfect self-assessments (2005) (70)
- Words to live by: The self and definitions of social concepts and categories. (1993) (69)
- On the Motives Underlying Social Cognition (2007) (69)
- Changing Places: A Dual Judgment Model of Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking (2013) (68)
- Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style (2019) (67)
- 'Don't Tell Me, I Don't Want to Know": Understanding People's Reluctance to Obtain Medical Diagnostic Information. (2006) (67)
- Mental addition versus subtraction in counterfactual reasoning: on assessing the impact of personal actions and life events. (1989) (66)
- How chronic self-views influence (and mislead) self-assessments of task performance: self-views shape bottom-up experiences with the task. (2009) (64)
- Idiosyncratic trait definitions: implications for self-description and social judgment. (1995) (64)
- Betrayal aversion versus principled trustfulness—How to explain risk avoidance and risky choices in trust games (2012) (62)
- Examining the generality of eyewitness hypermnesia: A close look at time delay and question type (1992) (57)
- Systems approaches to the treatment of motivation in human action: Three notes (2016) (57)
- Why So Cynical? (2010) (56)
- Faulty Self-Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task (2008) (56)
- The illusion of courage in self-predictions: Mispredicting one's own behavior in embarrassing situations† (2012) (52)
- One-Shot Illusory Correlations and Stereotype Formation (2007) (49)
- Egocentric pattern projection: how implicit personality theories recapitulate the geography of the self. (2009) (48)
- Prediction: The inside view. (2007) (47)
- Behavioral Norms: Variants and Their Identification (2014) (46)
- Mispredicting the endowment effect:: Underestimation of owners’ selling prices by buyer’s agents (2003) (41)
- Defining Self-Worth: Trait Self-Esteem Moderates the Use of Self-Serving Trait Definitions in Social Judgment (2001) (38)
- The More Rational Side of Self-Serving Prototypes: The Effects of Success and Failure Performance Feedback (1998) (35)
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2010) (34)
- Age Stereotypes, Communication Modality, and Mock Jurors’ Perceptions of the Child Witness (1989) (34)
- The hobgoblin of consistency: algorithmic judgment strategies underlie inflated self-assessments of performance. (2013) (33)
- Social Judgment as Implicit Social Comparison (2000) (32)
- Regulating impressions of others to affirm images of the self (2000) (31)
- Trust Against All Odds? Emotional Dynamics in Trust Behavior (2016) (31)
- Predicting persons' versus a person's goodness: behavioral forecasts diverge for individuals versus populations. (2013) (31)
- Being All That You Can Be (2012) (27)
- Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape beyond One's Conceptual Reach (2018) (25)
- Beyond the Correlation Coefficient in Studies of Self-Assessment Accuracy: Commentary on Zell & Krizan (2014) (2014) (25)
- A Mile in Moccasins: How Situational Experience Diminishes Dispositionism in Social Inference (2008) (25)
- Why People Trust: Solved Puzzles and Open Mysteries (2019) (24)
- Trust and Rationality: Shifting Normative Analyses of Risks Involving Other People Versus Nature (2015) (23)
- Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications: A reality monitoring approach. (1994) (23)
- Understanding the psychology of trust. (2011) (22)
- Motivated cognition in self and social thought (2015) (21)
- Adult Eyewitness Testimony: Unconscious transference and lineup identification: Toward a memory blending approach (1994) (20)
- When Knowledge Knows No Bounds: Self-Perceived Expertise Predicts Claims of Impossible Knowledge (2015) (20)
- Why the Unskilled are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent (2006) (19)
- Thinking about Others versus Another: Three Reasons Judgments about Collectives and Individuals Differ (2014) (19)
- Evaluating others : The role of who we are versus what we think traits mean (2001) (19)
- Trust as an expressive rather than an instrumental act (2010) (18)
- Self-Image Motives: Further Thoughts and Reflections (2007) (18)
- A Broader View of “Self” in Egocentric Social Judgment: Current and Possible Selves (2005) (17)
- The Psychology of Respect: A Case Study of How Behavioral Norms Regulate Human Action (2016) (16)
- The varying roles played by emotion in economic decision making (2017) (16)
- Monozygotic twins or unrelated stepchildren? On the relationship between economic psychology and behavioral economics (2012) (14)
- Causal trait theories: a new form of person knowledge that explains egocentric pattern projection. (2015) (14)
- Behavioral Influences in the Present Tense (2013) (14)
- Reflections on Self-Reflection: Contemplating Flawed Self-Judgments in the Clinic, Classroom, and Office Cubicle (2018) (14)
- Perceptions of Prosociality and Solidarity in Self and Others (2006) (14)
- Egocentric empathy gaps in social interaction and exchange (2001) (13)
- Cognitive Activity and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (2011) (12)
- 23. On motivated reasoning and self-belief (2012) (12)
- Jumping to conclusions: Implications for reasoning errors, false belief, knowledge corruption, and impeded learning. (2020) (11)
- Perception of prosociality in self and others. (2006) (11)
- 4. Confidence considered: assessing the quality of decisions and performance (2012) (11)
- Distinguishing Accurate Eyewitness Identifications from Erroneous Ones: Post-dictive Indicators of Eyewitness Accuracy (2006) (11)
- Heuristics and Biases: Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation: The Role of Idiosyncratic Trait Definitions in Self-Serving Assessments of Ability (2002) (11)
- Get thee to a laboratory (2011) (10)
- Comparison processes in counterfactual thought. (1995) (9)
- The anti‐scientists bias: The role of feelings about scientists in COVID‐19 attitudes and behaviors (2021) (9)
- Strangers Ourselves: (2006) (9)
- Normative goals and the regulation of social behavior: The case of respect (2017) (8)
- The Problem of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence: Implications for Self-assessment and Development in the Workplace (2013) (8)
- Current Directions in Psychological (2010) (8)
- Hypocognition and the Invisibility of Social Privilege (2020) (7)
- Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers? (2020) (7)
- Research on Children’s Eyewitness Testimony: Perspectives on Its Past and Future (1989) (7)
- What the Commentators Motivated Us to Think About (1999) (6)
- The best option illusion in self and social assessment (2019) (6)
- Decision fluency and overconfidence among beginners. (2020) (6)
- The paradox of knowing (2013) (4)
- On Identifying Human Capital: Flawed Knowledge Leads to Faulty Judgments of Expertise by Individuals and Groups (2015) (4)
- Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs? (2021) (3)
- What Is the Word on Self-Motives and Social Perception: Introduction to the Special Issue (2001) (3)
- Cultural Patterns Explain the Worldwide Perception/Performance Paradox in Student Self-Assessments of Math and Science Skill (2018) (3)
- Misbelief and the neglect of environmental context (2009) (2)
- Consistency just feels right: Procedural fluency increases confidence in performance. (2020) (2)
- Where does intellectual humility reside? (2023) (2)
- Hypocognitive Mind: How Lack of Conceptual Knowledge Confines What People See and Remember (2019) (2)
- Postcards from the Edge: Notes on Social Psychology, the Story So Far. (1999) (2)
- Social motivation some introductory notes (2011) (2)
- Invisibility of Social Privilege to Those Who Have It (2020) (2)
- Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (2018) (2)
- But what would a balanced approach look like? (2004) (1)
- Feelings of Self-Worth Measure (2015) (1)
- Evaluating Others: The Role of Who We Are Versus What We Think Traits Mean (2001) (1)
- Context, as well as inputs, shape decisions, but are people aware of it? (2014) (1)
- Judgment and decision making (2012) (1)
- My Rather Unknown Piece About “Unknown Unknowns” and Their Role in Self-Insight (2011) (0)
- "Unskilled, Unaware, & Uninterested in Learning More: Reactions to Emotional Intelligence Feedback" (2013) (0)
- The Farce of Consent: Psychological Factors that Challenge the Notion of Voluntary Consent (2019) (0)
- Normative goals and the regulation of social behavior: The case of respect (2017) (0)
- What Do We Really Want? (2012) (0)
- Moral agency among the ruins (2018) (0)
- A Supplement to Psychological Science A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science Published by Blackwell Publishing PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (2006) (0)
- HJCP Self-Image Motives : Further Thoughts and Reflections (2007) (0)
- Obligation at zero acquaintance (2020) (0)
- On the social psychology of hearsay evidence (1999) (0)
- From Formulae to Faith: A “Consistency Heuristic” in Assessments of Self-Performance (2010) (0)
- THREE Changing Places : A Dual Judgment Model of Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking Leaf (2013) (0)
- What Motivates Trust among Strangers: (515492014-002) (2014) (0)
- Taking the Plunge Into the Self. (2004) (0)
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