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Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1467-8721.01235

1467-8721

David Dunning, Kerri L. Johnson, Joyce Ehrlinger, Justin Kruger,

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Successful negotiation of everyday life would seem to require people to possess insight about deficiencies in their intellectual and social skills. However, people tend to be blissfully unaware of their incompetence. This lack of awareness arises because poor performers are doubly cursed: Their lack of skill deprives them not only of the ability to produce correct responses, but also of the expertise necessary to surmise that they are not producing them. People base their perceptions of performance, in part, on their preconceived notions about their skills. Because these notions often do not correlate with objective performance, they can lead people to make judgments about their performance that have little to do with actual accomplishment.