Self and Social Insight (SaSI) Lab
SaSI Lab Publications
In Press
Eibach, R.P., Libby, L.K. & Ehrlinger, J. (In Press). The illusion of social decline: A consequence of mistaking change in oneself for change in the world. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. [reprints]
Helzer, E.G. & Dunning, D. (In Press). Why and when peer prediction is superior to self-prediction: The weight given to future aspiration versus past achievement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [abstract]
Ross, L., Ehrlinger, J. & Gilovich, T. (In Press). The bias blind spot and its implications. In Elsbach, K.D. & Kayes, A.B (Eds.), Contemporary Organizational Behavior in Action. Pearson Prentice Hall. [reprints]
Sparks, E. & Ehrlinger, J. (In Press). Psychological contributors to the failure to anticipate unintended consequences. Compass: Social and Personality Psychology. [reprints]
Helzer, E.G. & Dunning, D. (In Press). On motivated reasoning and self-belief. In S. Vazire & T. D. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of self-knowledge. New York: Guilford.
Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (In Press). Wishful Seeing: Motivational Influences on Visual Perception of the Physical Environment. In E. Balcetis & G. D. Lassiter (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.
Balcetis, E. & Lassiter, G.D. (In Press). The Social Psychology of Visual Perception. New York: Psychology Press.
Dunning, D. (In Press). My rather unknown piece about “unknown unknowns” and their role in self-insight. Most underappreciated: 50 prominent social psychologists talk about hidden gems. Cambridge, UK: Oxford University.
Dunning, D. & Fetchenhauer, D. (In Press). Trust as an expressive rather than an instrumental act. In S. Thye & E. Lawler (Eds.), Advances in group processes (vol. 27). New York: Emerald.
Van Boven, L., Loewenstein, G., Welch, E. & Dunning, D. (In Press). The illusion of courage: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on the self. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Balcetis, E. (In Press). How a biased majority claim moral minority: Tracking eye movements to base rates in social predictions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [abstract]
Balcetis, E. & Cole, S. (In Press). Body in Mind: The Role of Embodied Cognition in Self-Regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. [abstract]
Ehrlinger, J. & Mitchum, A. (In Press). How beliefs in the ability to improve influence accuracy in and use of metacognitive judgments. Metacognition: New Directions. [reprints]
Published
Fay, A.J., Jordan, A.H. & Ehrlinger, J. (2012). How social norms promote misleading social feedback and inaccurate self-assessment. Compass: Social and Personality Psychology, 6(2), 206-216. [reprints]
Conlon, K.E., Ehrlinger, J., Eibach, R.P., Crescioni, A., Alquist, J., Gerend, M.A. & Dutton, G. (2011). Keeping one’s eyes on the prize: The longitudinal benefits of accomplishment focus on progress toward a weight loss goal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 853-855. [reprints]
Crescioni, A., Ehrlinger, J., Alquist, J., Conlon, K.E., Baumeister, R.F. & Dutton, G. (2011). High trait self-control predicts positive health behaviors and success in weight loss. Journal of Health Psychology, 16(5), 750-759. [reprints]
Critcher, C.R., Helzer, E.G. & Dunning, D. (2011). Self-enhancement via redefinition: Defining social concepts to ensure positive views of self. In M. Alicke & C. Sedikides (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection, (pp. 69-91). New York: The Guilford Press.
Ehrlinger, J. & Eibach, R.P. (2011). Focalism and the failure to foresee unintended consequences. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 33, 59-68. [reprints]
Ehrlinger, J., Plant, E., Eibach, R.P., Columb, C., Goplen, J. & Kunstman, J. (2011). How exposure to the Confederate flag affects willingness to vote for Barack Obama. Political Psychology, 32(1), 131-146. [reprints]
Sparks, E., Ehrlinger, J. & Eibach, R.P. (2011). Failing to commit: Maximizers avoid commitment in a way that contributes to reduced satisfaction. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 72-77. [reprints]
Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2010). Wishful seeing: Desirable objects are seen as closer. Psychological Science, 21, 147-152. [reprints | abstract]
Critcher, C.R., Dunning, D. & Armor, D.A. (2010). When self-affirmations reduce defensiveness: Timing is key. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 947-959. [reprints | abstract]
Dunning, D. (2010). Social Motivation. New York: Psychology Press.
Eibach, R.P. & Ehrlinger, J. (2010). Reference points in men’s and women’s judgments of progress towards gender equality. Sex Roles, 63(11), 882-893. [reprints]
Fetchenhauer, D. & Dunning, D. (2010). Why so cynical? Asymmetric feedback underlies misguided skepticism in the trustworthiness of others. Psychological Science, 21, 189-193. [reprints | abstract]
Critcher, C.R. & Dunning, D. (2009). Egocentric Pattern Projection: How Implicit Personality Theories Recapitulate the Geography of the Self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(1), 1-16. [reprints | abstract]
Critcher, C.R. & Dunning, D. (2009). How chronic self-views influence (and mislead) selfassessments of performance: Self-views shape bottom-up experiences with the task. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97(6), 931-945. [reprints | abstract]
Fetchenhauer, D. & Dunning, D. (2009). Do people trust too much or too little? Journal of Economic Psychology, 30, 263-276. [reprints | abstract]
Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2008). A mile in moccasins: How situational experience reduces dispositionism in social judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 102-114. [reprints | abstract]
Balcetis, E., Dunning, D. & Miller, R.L. (2008). Do collectivists know themselves better than individualists? Cross-cultural studies of the holier than thou phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1252-1267. [reprints | abstract]
Carter, T.J. & Dunning, D. (2008). Faulty Self-Assessment: Why Evaluating One's Own Competence Is an Intrinsically Difficult Task. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(1), 346-360. [pdf | abstract | website]
Ehrlinger, J. (2008). Skill level, Self-views and self-theories as sources of error in self-assessment. Compass: Social and Personality Psychology, 2, 382-398. [reprints | abstract]
Ehrlinger, J., Johnson, K.L., Banner, M., Dunning, D. & Kruger, J. (2008). Why the unskilled are unaware? Further explorations of (lack of) self-insight among the incompetent. Organizational Behavior and Organizational Decision Processes, 105, 98-121. [reprints | abstract]
Balcetis, E. (2007). Where the motivation resides and self-deception hides: How motivated cognition accomplishes self-deception. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 1-21. [abstract]
Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2007). Cognitive dissonance and the perception of natural environments. Psychological Science, 18, 917-921. [abstract]
Risen, J., Gilovich, T. & Dunning, D. (2007). One-shot illusory correlations and stereotype formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1492-1502. [reprints | abstract]
Balcetis, E. & Dunning, D. (2006). See what you want to see: Motivational influences on visual perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 612-625. [abstract]
Dweck, C.S. & Ehrlinger, J. (2006). Implicit theories and conflict resolution. In M. Deutsch & P.T. Coleman (Eds.), Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, (pp. 317-330). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [reprints]
Eibach, R.P. & Ehrlinger, J. (2006). “Keep your eyes on the prize”: Reference points and group differences in assessing progress towards equality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 66-77. [reprints | abstract]
Epley, N. & Dunning, D. (2006). The mixed blessings of self-knowledge in behavioral prediction: Enhanced discrimination but exacerbated bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 641-655. [reprints | abstract]
Caputo, D.D. & Dunning, D. (2005). What you don’t know: The role played by errors of omission in imperfect self-assessments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 488-505. [reprints | abstract]
Dunning, D. (2005). Self-Insight: Roadblocks and detours on the path toward knowing thyself. New York, NY: Psychology Press. [abstract | website]
Ehrlinger, J., Gilovich, T. & Ross, L. (2005). Peering into the bias blind spot: People’s assessments of bias in themselves and others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 680-692. [reprints | abstract]
Dunning, D., Heath, C. & Suls, J.M. (2004). Flawed self-assessment: Implications for Health, Education, and the Workplace. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(3), 69-106. [abstract | website]
Dunning, D., Johnson, K.L., Ehrlinger, J. & Kruger, J. (2003). Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12, 83-86. [reprints | abstract]
Ehrlinger, J. & Dunning, D. (2003). How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) assessments of performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 5-17. [reprints | abstract]
Kruger, J. & Dunning, D. (2002). Unskilled and Unaware—But Why? A Reply to Krueger & Mueller. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 189-192.
Epley, N. & Dunning, D. (2000). Feeling "holier than thou": Are self-serving assessments produced by errors in self or social prediction? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 861-875. [reprints | abstract]
Kruger, J. & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134.
Under Review
Helzer, E.G. & Dunning, D. (2013). Why and when peer prediction is superior to self-prediction: The weight given to future aspiration versus past achievement. (Under Review).
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