David Dunning Quotes
One theme we look at is what psychologists call motivated reasoning; lay people refer to it as self-deception, wishful thinking or rationalization. The list of creative ways people have for reaching conclusions they wish to reach and dismissing conclusions they find threatening is amazing. We've shown that it goes down even to the level of visual perception: You literally see what you want to see.
David Dunning is the co-researcher that identified and named the Dunning-Kruger effect – a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
David Alan Dunning is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a retired professor of psychology at Cornell University.
