Feeling like you're an expert can make you closed minded

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Siberian_Khatru

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BPS Research Digest: Feeling like you're an expert can make you closed-minded

What happens to us as we accrue knowledge and experience, as we become experts in a field? Competence follows. Effortlessness follows. 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.
 
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Gosh. I've never noticed any of that on this forum.
 

crossnote

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I never feel that way at all, so don't tell me...:rolleyes:
 

maxwel

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This required a research paper?
 

crossnote

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This required a research paper?
Scripture knew it all along...

1Co 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1Co 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
 

notuptome

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I think it's all a bunch of hooey.

Ro 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
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What are liberal's excuse?
 

Desdichado

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What are liberal's excuse?
They are too busy to be an expert in anything. Expertise indicates an archaic view of hierarchy. Instead they go about re-weaving the fabric of reality itself which gives them a new sense of arrogance.

"Where were you, conservative, when I re-laid the foundations of the earth?"