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2012
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Overview

David Dunning is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans primarily across the social sciences with a focus on subfields including sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, family practice, and safety research.

The scientist's work is concentrated on key topics such as misinformation and its impacts, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, decision-making and behavioral economics, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, experimental behavioral economics studies, and climate change communication and perception.

Recent publications by David Dunning include:

  • "Do Your Own Research", 2022, Social Epistemology
  • Jumping to conclusions: Implications for reasoning errors, false belief, knowledge corruption, and impeded learning., 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • The anti-scientists bias: The role of feelings about scientists in COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors, 2021, Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs?, 2021, Emotion
  • Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers?, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Frequent collaborators of this scientist include Carmen Sanchez, Stav Atir, Detlef Fetchenhauer, Thomas Schlösser, and Daniel Ehlebracht.

David Dunning has published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Social Epistemology

The cumulative work of David Dunning reflects intersections between decision sciences and behavioral economics, as well as the psychological mechanisms underpinning belief formation and responses to misinformation.

Best Publications

  • Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

    Justin Kruger;David Dunning

  • Flawed Self-Assessment Implications for Health, Education, and the Workplace

    David Dunning;Chip Heath;Jerry M. Suls

  • Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

    David Dunning;Kerri Johnson;Joyce Ehrlinger;Justin Kruger

  • Ambiguity and self-evaluation: the role of idiosyncratic trait definitions in self-serving assessments of ability

    David Dunning;Judith A. Meyerowitz;Amy D. Holzberg

  • The Dunning-Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance.

    David Dunning

  • See what you want to see : Motivational influences on visual perception

    Emily Balcetis;David Dunning

  • Feeling "holier than thou": are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self- or social prediction?

    Nicholas Epley;David Dunning

  • Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent

    Joyce Ehrlinger;Kerri Johnson;Matthew Banner;David Dunning

  • How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) estimates of performance.

    Joyce Ehrlinger;David Dunning

  • Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself

    David Dunning

  • The overconfidence effect in social prediction.

    David Dunning;Dale W. Griffin;James D. Milojkovic;Lee Ross

  • Wishful Seeing: More Desired Objects Are Seen as Closer

    Emily Balcetis;David Dunning

  • Evidence for egocentric comparison in social judgment

    David Dunning;Andrew F. Hayes

  • Egocentric empathy gaps between owners and buyers: misperceptions of the endowment effect.

    Leaf Van Boven;David Dunning;George Loewenstein

  • A newer look: Motivated social cognition and the schematic representation of social concepts.

    David Dunning

  • A New Look at Motivated Inference: Are Self-Serving Theories of Success a Product of Motivational Forces?

    David Dunning;Ann Leuenberger;David A. Sherman

  • The role of construal processes in overconfident predictions about the self and others

    Dale W. Griffin;David Dunning;Lee Ross

  • Self-Image Motives and Consumer Behavior: How Sacrosanct Self-Beliefs Sway Preferences in the Marketplace

    David Dunning

  • Egocentric Definitions of Traits and Abilities in Social Judgment

    David Dunning;Geoffrey L. Cohen

  • Heuristics and Biases: Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation: The Role of Idiosyncratic Trait Definitions in Self-Serving Assessments of Ability

    David Dunning;Judith A. Meyerowitz;Amy D. Holzberg

  • Strangers to ourselves

    David Dunning

Frequent Co-Authors

George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Leaf Van Boven
Leaf Van Boven University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen J. Ceci
Stephen J. Ceci Cornell University
Kerri L. Johnson
Kerri L. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley University of Chicago
Ziva Kunda
Ziva Kunda University of Waterloo
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University
Dale Griffin
Dale Griffin University of British Columbia
Lee Ross
Lee Ross Stanford University
Sandra L. Murray
Sandra L. Murray University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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