# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception is featured

1 Faculty News January 24, 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/2017/01/24/the-dunning-kruger-effect-shows-why-some-people-think-theyre-great-even-when-their-work-is-terrible/#733958127ac0) -- "Coined in 1999 by then-Cornell psychologists David Dunning and [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger), the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are incompetent at something are unable to recognize their own incompetence. And not only do they fail to recognize their incompetence, they’re also likely to feel confident that they actually are competent."

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