Justin Kruger Explained

Justin Kruger
Birth Place:California, U.S.
Education:Santa Clara University (BS)
Cornell University (PhD)
Nationality:American
Occupation:Psychologist, professor
Field:Psychology
Thesis Title:Egocentrism in self and social judgment
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63892270
Thesis Year:1999
Doctoral Advisor:Thomas Gilovich
Known For:Dunning–Kruger effect

Justin S. Kruger is an American social psychologist and professor at New York University Stern School of Business.[1] [2]

Education

Kruger received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in psychology from Santa Clara University in 1993, and spent his junior year there at Durham University. He then received his PhD in social psychology from Cornell University in 1999.

Research

Kruger is known for co-authoring a 1999 study[3] with David Dunning.[4]

The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias, suggests that poor performers often overestimate their abilities, while skilled individuals tend to underestimate their abilities.[5] This study showed that people who performed in the lowest at certain tasks, such as judging humor, grammar, and logic, significantly overestimated how good they were at these tasks. This study has since given rise to what is known as the Dunning–Kruger effect, a form of cognitive bias where persons with low ability in a particular task experience a sense of illusory superiority.[6] The study also found that people who performed slightly above average at identifying how funny a given joke was tended to be the most accurate at assessing how good they were at the assigned tasks, and that those who performed the best tended to think they performed only slightly above average.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: JUSTIN KRUGER Curriculum Vitae. Kruger. Justin. Spring 2011. May 3, 2017.
  2. Web site: Justin Kruger: Associate Professor of Marketing. Cureton. Nadia N.. pages.stern.nyu.edu. 2017-05-03.
  3. Kruger. J. Dunning. D. Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. December 1999. 77. 6. 1121–34. 10626367. 10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121. 2109278.
  4. Those Who Can't, Don't Know It . Harvard Business Review . December 2005 . 25 May 2016 . Abrahams, Marc.
  5. Web site: The Dunning-Kruger - Effect . 20 April 2023 . en.
  6. Web site: Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome . Ars Technica . 25 May 2012 . 25 May 2016 . Lee, Chris.
  7. Web site: The more inept you are the smarter you think you are . BBC Future . 25 November 2013 . 25 May 2016 . Stafford, Tom.