When peers are not peers and don't know it: The Dunning-Kruger effect and self-fulfilling prophecy in peer-review

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 414-416

  Huang, Sui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Editors; Meta cognition; Meta ignorance; Positive feedback loop; Self fulfilling prophecy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PEER REVIEW; SPECIALIZATION;

FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; PEER GROUP; PEER REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84876312818     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200182     Document Type: Article

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