In this video, Joe Hanson from Be Smart attempts to land a plane (in a flight simulator) with no prior experience. Dr. Dunning weighs in on why people might think they may be overconfident about their ability to be successful in various domains. Watch the video on YouTube by clicking here or watching it in […]
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In this new podcast episode hosted by Stanford Psychologists, Eric Neumann chats with Dr. Dunning about the paradox of trust: a rational person wouldn’t trust people, but try to run a society without it. “Who do we trust? How accurate are we in assessing another’s trustworthiness? Why do we sometimes trust people we think to
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“As psychological studies have repeatedly shown, when it comes to technical and complex issues like climate change and vaccine efficacy, novices who do their own research often end up becoming more misled than informed — the exact opposite of what D.Y.O.R. is supposed to accomplish.” Read Dr. Nathan Ballantyne and Dr. Dunning’s guest essay for
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Belief in conspiracy theories and overconfidence are two tendencies linked to hasty thinking. Read Dr. Carmen Sanchez and Dr. Dunning’s article in Scientific American here.
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Dr. Dunning talks about why some of the people who make the rules also seem to be the ones breaking them with 1 News, the news division of New Zealand’s television network TVNZ. Watch Dr. Dunning’s interview: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/09/19/your-actions-alter-my-fate-why-covid-rule-breakers-rile-community/.
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As COVID-19 numbers increase yet again here in Michigan, a few striking truths are emerging. The first is that the delta variant is very aggressive and is believed to be behind the vast majority of new cases of COVID-19, the second is that these new cases are not only happening in unvaccinated people, and the third truth is that there are still
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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.
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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.
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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
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