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 results led to what is now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Read More: Where Do Thoughts Occur? The Dunning-Kruger effect holds that people who are not strong in a particular area tend to be ...

I just wrote the other day about willful ignorance, another of our human behaviors, so when I ran across this study in PNAS, I was curious about what they fo We have gotten used to trolls and ...