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David Dunning

A man with short, graying hair and glasses is wearing a dark suit jacket over a light blue shirt and a red sweater vest, smiling gently against a neutral background.

American social psychologist, long at Cornell and later the University of Michigan, who studies self-assessment, motivated reasoning, and the limits of introspection. His 1999 paper with Justin Kruger on metacognitive blind spots became one of the most cited in modern psychology, and he has spent the decades since defending and refining it against statistical critiques.

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