# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on cognitive bias is spotlighted

1 Faculty News February 22, 2017 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2017/02/22/the-dunning-kruger-effect-helps-explain-why-people-resist-hearing-constructive-criticism/#6568d79b96e1) -- "...coined by psychologists David Dunning and [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger), the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are both unable to recognize their own incompetence and likely to feel confident that they actually are competent."

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