# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception, the Dunning-Kruger effect, is included in an article on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

1 Faculty News March 18, 2019 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from the [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-corruption.html) -- "As political actors, the couple are living exemplars of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon which leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability because they can’t grasp how much they don’t know."

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