David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

 “The beauty and the terror of the internet,” social psychologist David Dunning tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, “is that there’s a lot of terrific information, but there’s also a lot of misinformation and sometimes outright fraud. People often don’t have the wherewithal to distinguish.” David Dunning, a professor of psychology at the… Continue reading David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect

‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ scholars win 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology

Contact: Tevah Platt, 734-660-4999, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—Social psychologists David Dunning of the University of Michigan and Justin Kruger of New York University have been named co-winners of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for their work identifying a cognitive bias that causes people to overrate their own competence. The Grawemeyer Awards, administered by the University… Continue reading ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ scholars win 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology