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

By D. Dunning. 2005

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Understanding overconfidence: Theories of intelligence, preferential attention, and distorted self-assessment (2016, background): “…1992), social skills (e.g., DePaulo et al., 1997), itute of Education Sciences, U.S. o Washington State University. do not represent views of the , Washington State University, ss article under the CC BY-NC-ND lic and job performance (e.g., Bass & Yammarino, 1991; for a review, see Dunning, 2005).”
How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance (2013, background): “People provide overinflated views of themselves in a variety of settings (for reviews, see Dunning, 2005; Dunning, Heath, & Suls, 2004).”
Flawed Self-Assessment (2004, unknown): “Such work would have to examine carefullytheimpactofdifferenttypesofself-judgmenterrors,the magnitude of those errors, and the settings in which those errors take place (for a more extensive discussion, see Dunning, 2005).”
The psychology of change: self-affirmation and social psychological intervention. (2014, background): “People can flexibly define success in a way that puts their idiosyncratic strengths in a positive light, establishing a reliable but realistic basis for self-integrity (Dunning 2005).”
Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent. (2008, unknown): “Surveys of the literature also suggest that people hold positive beliefs about their competence to a logically impossible degree (for reviews, see Alicke & Govorun, 2005; Dunning, 2005; Dunning et al., 2004).”
Mindless Eating (2007, result): “This is consistent with other psychological work that shows that people tend to have flawed self-assessments, leading to an unmerited overconfidence (Dunning, 2005).”
Do people trust too much or too little (2009, unknown): “…in a hypothetical situation are not able to foresee the emotions they would feel if their decision were made for real, as well as what impact those emotions will have on their thoughts and preferences (e.g., Van Boven, Loewenstein, & Dunning, 2005; Van Boven, Loewenstein, Welch, & Dunning, 2008).”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “Conversely, they “disidentify” from, and fail to invest effort in, or evaluate their worth in terms of, dimensions of potential evaluation at which they have failed or expect failure (Crocker & Major, 1989; Dunning, 2005; Kunda, 1987; Steele, 1988).”
The trouble with overconfidence. (2008, unknown): “Researchers routinely assume, either explicitly or implicitly, that the different types of overconfidence result from the same underlying psychological causes (eg, Alba & Hutchinson, 2000; Barber & Odean, 2001; Belsky & Gilovich, 2000; Daniel et al,, 1998; Dunning, 2005; Juslin, Winman, & Olsson, 20”
The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011, methodology): “We can also rely on the discussion above to address one enduring and unsettled dispute—whether the optimism and overconfidence that people so often exhibit is beneficial or costly to them (Colvin & Block, 1994; Dunning, 2005; Kurt & Paulhus, 2008; Taylor & Brown, 1988).”
Self-Image Motives and Consumer Behavior: How Sacrosanct Self-Beliefs Sway Preferences in the Marketplace (2007, background): “They also overestimate how assertively they will act in social situations (Van Boven, Loewenstein, & Dunning, 2005; Woodzicka & LaFrance, 2001).”
The Importance of Domain-Specific Expertise in Creativity (2015, unknown): “First, they used mostly self-report data, which is notoriously unreliable in general (Dunning, 2012; Dunning, Johnson, Ehrlinger, & Kruger, 2003; Kruger, 1999; Zell & Krizan, 2014), and perhaps especially in creativity self-assessment (Brown, 1989; Hocevar, 1981; Kaufman, Evans, & Baer, 2010; Michae”
Others Sometimes Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves (2011, background): “…Simine Vazire, Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Dr., Campus Box 1125, St. Louis, MO 63130 E-mail: svazire@artsci.wustl.edu the lengths people will go to in order to maintain a positive view of themselves, leading to flawed self-assessment (Dunning, 2005).”
Justified ethicality: Observing desired counterfactuals modifies ethical perceptions and behavior (2011, background): “It seems that sellers processed the information about the car's mileage in a self-serving manner (Dunning, 2005; Dunning, Heath, & Suls, 2004; Ehrlinger & Dunning , 2003), allowing them to gain financially.”
Listen to Your Heart? Calling and Receptivity to Career Advice (2012, unknown): “Yet, self-insights are consistently inaccurate and people are generally overconfident (e.g., Alicke & Govorun, 2005; Dunning, 2005; Ehrlinger, Johnson, Banner, Dunning, & Kruger, 2008; Kruger & Dunning, 1999).”