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  1. Prosocial decisions in naturalistic helping scenarios are predicted by cost-benefit tradeoffs and individual disposition

    Article • Communications Psychology, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Dunning

  2. Behavioral Trust in Competence Versus Morality: Experimental Evidence of Differences and Similarities

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, September 2025, Wiley

    David Dunning

  3. Psychological mechanisms underlying the biased interpretation of numerical scientific evidence.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, December 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  4. Where does intellectual humility reside?

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    David Dunning

  5. “Do Your Own Research”

    Article • Social Epistemology, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    David Dunning

  6. Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs?

    Article • Emotion, August 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  7. Jumping to conclusions: Implications for reasoning errors, false belief, knowledge corruption, and impeded learning.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, March 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  8. Consistency just feels right: Procedural fluency increases confidence in performance.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, December 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  9. Invisibility of Social Privilege to Those Who Have It

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    David Dunning

  10. Decision fluency and overconfidence among beginners.

    Article • Decision, July 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  11. Hypocognition and the Invisibility of Social Privilege

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    David Dunning

  12. Obligation at zero acquaintance

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    David Dunning

  13. Hypocognitive Mind: How Lack of Conceptual Knowledge Confines What People See and Remember

    Article • October 2019, Center for Open Science

    David Dunning

  14. Why People Trust: Solved Puzzles and Open Mysteries

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    David Dunning

  15. Investigating the robustness of the illusory truth effect across individual differences in cognitive ability, need for cognitive closure, and cognitive style

    Article • April 2019, Center for Open Science

    David Dunning

  16. Cultural Patterns Explain the Worldwide Perception/Performance Paradox in Student Self-Assessments of Math and Science Skill

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    David Dunning

  17. The best option illusion in self and social assessment

    Article • Self and Identity, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    David Dunning

  18. Reflections on Self-Reflection: Contemplating Flawed Self-Judgments in the Clinic, Classroom, and Office Cubicle

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    David Dunning

  19. Hypocognition: Making sense of the landscape beyond one’s conceptual reach.

    Article • Review of General Psychology, March 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  20. Normative goals and the regulation of social behavior: The case of respect

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Dunning

  21. Trust against all odds? Emotional dynamics in trust behavior.

    Article • Decision, July 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Dunning

  22. When Knowledge Knows No Bounds

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    David Dunning

  23. The Dunning–Kruger Effect

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    David Dunning

  24. Self-Discovery

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Dunning