David Dunning, now a social psychologist at the University of Michigan, and Justin Kruger, now at NYU, proposed their namesake effect in a famous 1999 paper.

In 1999, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Krueger embarked on a research journey that would unveil a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Through a series of tests assessing humor, ...

The concept of the Dunning-Kruger effect is based on a 1999 paper by Cornell University psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger. The pair tested participants on their logic, grammar, and ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence.

Have you ever been in a conversation where someone who doesn’t know much about a topic talks as if they’re the ultimate expert? They speak with such bold certainty that you second-guess yourself until ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect was named after two Cornell University psychologists, David Dunning, PhD, and Justin Kruger, PhD. They coined the term in a paper on their observations of this behavior ...

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871). Experimental findings reported in 1999 by social psychologists David Dunning ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias first described by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. It occurs when people with low levels of knowledge, ...

But as noted by David Dunning himself, one of the biggest challenges of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is that by definition you don’t know you’re engaging in it.

Modern Research. In 1999, psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning conducted a study that was crucial for understanding this phenomenon. Through their research, they discovered that the more ...