David Alan Dunning
Mary Ann and Charles R Walgreen Jr Professor of the Study of Human Understanding, Professor of Psychology, Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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His research focuses on the psychology underlying human misbelief. In his most widely-cited work, he showed that people tend to hold flattering opinions of their competence, character, and prospects that cannot be justified from objective evidence–a phenomenon that carries many implications for health, education, the workplace, and economic exchange. He also examines how many of these same processes also injure judgments made by groups.
- Carmen Sanchez, Steffen Moritz, David Alan Dunning. 2025. Jumping to Conclusions. The Routledge Handbook of the Uncertain Self :118-131.
- Stav Atir, Emily Rosenzweig, David Alan Dunning. 2025. When do people claim to know the unknowable? The impact of informational context on overclaiming. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 186:104390.
- McKenna,Clint, David Alan Dunning. 2025. Psychological mechanisms underlying the biased interpretation of numerical scientific evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154(3):686-710.
- David Alan Dunning. 2025. False Beliefs among Experts and the Cognitively Able. The Psychology of False Beliefs :227-245.
- David Alan Dunning. 2024. Judgmental Biases in the Perception of Competitive Advantage: On Choosing the Right Race to Run. The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition :287-304.
- Stav Atir, Emily Rosenzweig, David Alan Dunning. 2024. Does expertise protect against overclaiming false knowledge?. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 184:104354.
- Yuyan Han, David Alan Dunning. 2024. Metaknowledge of Experts Versus Nonexperts: Do Experts Know Better What They Do and Do Not Know?. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 37(2):1-18.
- Carmen Sanchez, David Alan Dunning. 2024. Intermediate science knowledge predicts overconfidence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 28(4):284-285.
- Sanchez, Carmen, David Alan Dunning. 2023. Are experts overconfident?: An interdisciplinary review. Research in Organizational Behavior 43:100195.
- Dunning, David Alan, Wu, Kaidi . 2019. Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One's Conceptual Reach.. Review of General Psychology