Why the unskilled are unaware: Further explorations of (absent) self-insight among the incompetent

被引：387

作者：

Ehrlinger, Joyce ^{[1
]}

Johnson, Kerri ^{[2
]}

Banner, Matthew ^{[3
]}

Dunning, David ^{[3
]}

Kruger, Justin ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Florida State Univ, Dept Psychol, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA

[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Commun Studies, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[3] Cornell Univ, Dept Psychol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[4] NYU, Leonard N Stern Sch Business, New York, NY 10012 USA

来源：

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES | 2008年 / 105卷 / 01期

关键词：

competence; self-confidence; metacognition; self-insight;

D O I：

10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.05.002

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

People are typically overly optimistic when evaluating the quality of their performance on social and intellectual tasks. In particular, poor performers grossly overestimate their performances because their incompetence deprives them of the skills needed to recognize their deficits. Five studies demonstrated that poor performers lack insight into their shortcomings even in real world settings and when given incentives to be accurate. An additional meta-analysis showed that it was lack of insight into their own errors (and not mistaken assessments of their peers) that led to overly optimistic estimates among poor performers. Along the way, these studies ruled out recent alternative accounts that have been proposed to explain why poor performers hold such positive impressions of their performance. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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