David Dunning

29.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
147 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

David Dunning is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David Dunning has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 49 papers in Social Psychology and 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David Dunning's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (50 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (37 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (36 papers). David Dunning is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (50 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (37 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (36 papers). David Dunning collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. David Dunning's co-authors include Justin Kruger, Emily Balcetis, Joyce Ehrlinger, Jerry Suls, Chip Heath, Kerri L. Johnson, Nicholas Epley, Detlef Fetchenhauer, Lee Ross and Clayton R. Critcher and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Dunning

143 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

1999 4.3k citations Justin Kruger, David Dunning Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Flawed Self-Assessment

2004 1.3k citations David Dunning et al. profile →
Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

1999 1.0k citations Justin Kruger, David Dunning Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

2003 817 citations David Dunning, Kerri L. Johnson et al. profile →
Ambiguity and self-evaluation: The role of idiosyncratic trait definitions in self-serving assessments of ability.

1989 524 citations David Dunning et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs? 2021 ·Emotion ·Carmen Sanchez, David Dunning	13
2	Does betrayal aversion really guide trust decisions towards strangers? 2020 ·Journal of Behavioral Decision Making ·Detlef Fetchenhauer, (unknown), Daniel Ehlebracht, Thomas Schlösser, David Dunning	6
3	Consistency just feels right: Procedural fluency increases confidence in performance. 2020 ·Journal of Experimental Psychology General ·Elanor F. Williams, Kristen Duke, David Dunning	4
4	Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style 2019 ·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ·Jonas De keersmaecker, David Dunning, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand, Carmen Sanchez, Christian Unkelbach, Arne Roets	89
5	Overconfidence among beginners: Is a little learning a dangerous thing? 2017 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Carmen Sanchez, David Dunning	111
6	Causal trait theories: A new form of person knowledge that explains egocentric pattern projection. 2015 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Clayton R. Critcher, David Dunning, (unknown)	7
7	Trust at zero acquaintance: More a matter of respect than expectation of reward. 2014 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·David Dunning, Joanna E. Anderson, Thomas Schlösser, Daniel Ehlebracht, Detlef Fetchenhauer	122
8	The Illusion of Courage in Self-Predictions: Mispredicting One's Own Behavior in Embarrassing Situations 2012 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein, (unknown), David Dunning	1
9	How chronic self-views influence (and mislead) self-assessments of task performance: Self-views shape bottom-up experiences with the task. 2009 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Clayton R. Critcher, David Dunning	49
10	Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent 2007 ·Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes ·Joyce Ehrlinger, Kerri L. Johnson, (unknown), David Dunning, Justin Kruger	480
11	Strangers to ourselves 2006 ·Psychologist ·David Dunning	15
12	See what you want to see: Motivational influences on visual perception. 2006 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Emily Balcetis, David Dunning	420
13	Egocentric empathy gaps between owners and buyers: Misperceptions of the endowment effect. 2000 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Leaf Van Boven, David Dunning, George Loewenstein	50
14	Turning up the contrast: Self-enhancement motives prompt egocentric contrast effects in social judgments. 1998 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·(unknown), David Dunning	16
15	Construal processes and trait ambiguity: Implications for self-peer agreement in personality judgment. 1997 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Andrew F. Hayes, David Dunning	71
16	Idiosyncratic trait definitions: Implications for self-description and social judgment. 1995 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·David Dunning, (unknown)	4
17	The role of construal processes in overconfident predictions about the self and others. 1990 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Dale W. Griffin, David Dunning, Lee Ross	141
18	The overconfidence effect in social prediction. 1990 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·David Dunning, Dale Griffin, (unknown), Lee Ross	219
19	Mental addition versus subtraction in counterfactual reasoning: On assessing the impact of personal actions and life events. 1989 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·David Dunning, (unknown)	45
20	The Impact of Assessment on Reading Instruction. 1985 ·P. David Pearson, David Dunning	3

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