David Dunning explains how people can avoid overestimating their own knowledge, a psychological bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect ...

Discovery of the Dunning-Kruger Effect In 1999, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Krueger embarked on a research journey that would unveil a fundamental aspect of human cognition.

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 ...

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. To test this ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them ...

The causes and effects of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that causes a perception gap between perceived and actual performance.

What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias first described by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999.

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 incompetent a ...

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.

"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 ...

A key force at play in driving conspiracy theory beliefs, especially in the internet era, is that stories are more likely to spread if they provoke emotion, said David Dunning, the University of ...