May 27, 2015
Psychology Researchers Study Overclaiming
Stav Atir, Emily Rosenzweig and David Dunning at the Attention, Memory, and Perception Lab in the Psychology Department at Cornell have been testing their theory about over-claiming in a series of recent studies.
The scientists proved in their work that over-claiming is “domain-specific” and their research “ suggests, importantly, that self-perceived knowledge prompts mistaken claims of impossible expertise--not dishonest claims,” according to Huffington Post.
The findings of these studies will be published in the a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science.