Teera Losch

Just some recent news about movements of lab members… Erik Helzer has moved to Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Joyce Ehrlinger has moved to Washington State Universtiy Emily Rosenzweig has moved to the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Travis Carter has moved to Colby College. And, yes, the rumors are correct that […]

Over the past year or so, work from the lab has been featured in a variety of public news sources. Here is listing of recent examples: The new Pacific Standard article on the typical problem with the uninformed is that they really should be thought of as misinformed. You can get to the article here.

The Ideas series from CBC Radio (and on SiriusXM) recently broadcast an hour-long documentary that covers a good deal of the lab’s work–from Dunning-Kruger to false moral superiority to even motivated perception. You can listen to the program “The Fool’s Dilemma” here.

One of the more enjoyable and stimulating experience I (DD) have had over the past few months is being interviewed by Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. Justin Kruger, too, was interviewed for the piece. The topic was incompetence and the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s a five part series on the Opinionator blog at the

The Shortcuts column in the New York Times talks briefly about the lab’s work on trust. If the question is whether people trust too much or too little, why is the answer “yes?” To understand, just click here. The work, done in collaboration with Detlef Fetchenhauer, was also recently described in Die Welt, in Germany.