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October 30, 2015 By Carrie Gallagher

Feeling like you’re an expert can make you closed-minded

From digest.bps.org.uk

What happens to us as we accrue knowledge and experience, as we become experts in a field? Competence follows. Effortlessness follows (pdf). But certain downsides can follow too. We reported recently on how experts are vulnerable to an overclaiming error – falsely feeling familiar with things that seem true of a domain but aren’t. Now a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology explores how feelings of expertise can lead us to be more dogmatic towards new ideas.

Victor Ottati at Loyola University and his colleagues manipulated their student participants to feel relative experts or novices in a chosen field, through easy questions like “Who is the current President of the United States?” or tough ones like “Who was Nixon’s initial Vice-President?” and through providing feedback to enforce the participants’ feelings of knowledge or ignorance.

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Author : digest.bps.org.uk

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