David Dunning
Impact in
- General Decision Sciences top 0.05%
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Applied Psychology top 0.05%
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Papers in
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- Social and Intergroup Psychology 56
- Misinformation and Its Impacts 11
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- Cultural Differences and Values 31
- Co-authors
- Justin Kruger (10 shared papers)Emily Balcetis (9 shared papers)Joyce Ehrlinger (5 shared papers)Jerry Suls (3 shared papers)Chip Heath (3 shared papers)Nicholas Epley (4 shared papers)Kerri L. Johnson (4 shared papers)Detlef Fetchenhauer (17 shared papers)
- Journals
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (48 papers)Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (8 papers)Psychological Science (5 papers)Journal of Applied Psychology (4 papers)Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyCanada
In The Last Decade
David Dunning
162 papers receiving 18.2k citations
David Dunning's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 194
- General Decision Sciences 2.4k
- Applied Psychology 2.7k
- Social Psychology 5.3k
- Family Practice 395
- Safety Research 1.8k
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Dunning, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 168 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 4767 |
| 2 | Flawed Self-Assessment Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 1417 |
| 3 | Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 1101 |
| 4 | Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 900 |
| 5 | The Dunning–Kruger Effect Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 640 |
| 6 | Ambiguity and self-evaluation: The role of idiosyncratic trait definitions in self-serving assessments of ability. Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 610 |
| 7 | Feeling "holier than thou": Are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self- or social prediction? Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 554 |
| 8 | Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation: The Role of Idiosyncratic Trait Definitions in Self-Serving Assessments of Ability Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 518 |
| 9 | Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 518 |
| 10 | 2006 | 467 | |
| 11 | 2003 | 384 | |
| 12 | 2000 | 266 | |
| 13 | Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself | 2005 | 255 |
| 14 | 1990 | 252 | |
| 15 | 2009 | 249 | |
| 16 | 1996 | 238 | |
| 17 | 1990 | 230 | |
| 18 | 1999 | 216 | |
| 19 | 1990 | 176 | |
| 20 | 1995 | 171 |
About David Dunning
David Dunning is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Applied Psychology, having authored 168 papers that have together received 20.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (56 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (41 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (39 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (31 papers), Behavioral Health and Interventions (27 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (22 papers), Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (11 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Decision Sciences (2.4k citations), Applied Psychology (2.7k citations), Social Psychology (5.3k citations), Family Practice (395 citations) and Safety Research (1.8k citations). David Dunning has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Justin Kruger, Emily Balcetis, Joyce Ehrlinger, Jerry Suls, Chip Heath, Nicholas Epley, Kerri L. Johnson, Detlef Fetchenhauer, Lee Ross and Andrew F. Hayes. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
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