Think Again

people who scored the lowest
: Oliver J. Sheldon, David Dunning, and Daniel R. Ames,
“Emotionally Unskilled, Unaware, and Uninterested in Learning More: Reactions to Feedback
about Deficits in Emotional Intelligence,” Journal of Applied Psychology 99 (2014): 125–37.
Yet motivation is only part
: Gilles E. Gignac and Marcin Zajenkowski, “The Dunning-Kruger
Effect Is (Mostly) a Statistical Artefact: Valid Approaches to Testing the Hypothesis with
Individual Differences Data,” Intelligence 80 (2020): 101449; Tal Yarkoni, “What the Dunning-
Kruger Effect Is and Isn’t,” July 7, 2010, 
www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-
kruger-effect-is-and-isnt
.
when they’re offered a $100 bill
: Joyce Ehrlinger et al., “Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further
Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight among the Incompetent,” Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes 105 (2008): 98–121.
We tend to overestimate ourselves
: Spencer Greenberg and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “You Are
Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing,” New York Times, April 6,
2019, 
www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/overconfidence-men-women.html
.
simulated zombie apocalypse
: Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning, “Overconfidence among
Beginners: Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing?,” Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 114 (2018): 10–28.
patient mortality rates
: John Q. Young et al., “‘July Effect’: Impact of the Academic Year-End
Changeover on Patient Outcomes,” Annals of Internal Medicine 155 (2011): 309–15; Sarah Kliff,
“The July Effect Is Real: New Doctors Really Do Make Hospitals More Dangerous,” Vox, July
13, 2014, 
www.vox.com/2014/7/13/5893653/the-july-effect-is-real-new-doctors-really-do-make-
hospitals-more
.