# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on competence and self-assessments is featured

1 Faculty News January 9, 2017 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/why-donald-trump-will-be-the-dunning-kruger-president.html) -- "Dunning, a social psychologist, is one of the lead authors of 'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties In Recognizing One’s Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments,' an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology based on the results of a study he and a student, [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger), conducted at Cornell in 1999. As the title suggests, what they found was the existence of a cognitive bias in which the less able people are, the more likely they are to overestimate their abilities."

[Read more](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/why-donald-trump-will-be-the-dunning-kruger-president.html)