This year's speaker was Dr. David Dunning from the University of Michigan. If you missed his talk you can watch it on Youtube.
Title: We are all flawed intellects: So can we really judge expertise in self and others?
Abstract: Dr. Dunning discusses the flawed evaluator problem, which asks how well people can truly assess the intellectual and social skills of self and others when their own expertise contains gaps and defects? He discusses how these imperfections lead people to misjudge themselves, leading them to miss their own ignorance and incompetence (the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect). He discusses how those same flaws also prompt people to misjudge expertise among peers when it exceeds their own (the Cassandra Quandary). Along the way, Dr. Dunning will touch upon the implications of the flawed evaluator problem for personal issues and society at large.
Speaker
Bio: David
Dunning
is
a
social
psychologist
focusing
primarily
on the
psychology
underlying
human
misbelief.
His
most
cited
work
shows that
people
hold
flattering
self-opinions
that
cannot
be
justified
from
objective
evidence,
work
supported
by
the
NIMH,
the
NSF,
and
the Templeton
Foundation.
A
prolific
and
highly
cited
researcher,
he
has served
as
president
of
both
the
Society
of
Experimental
Social
Psychology and
the
Society
for
the
Science
of
Motivation.
The Ziva Kunda Memorial Lecture is presented annually by the Department of Psychology to honour the memory of Ziva as an outstanding scholar, friend, and mentor who passed away in February 2004.