Exploring How People Evaluate Expertise
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Harvard Business Review
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About
Professor Atir’s research examines how people evaluate – and misevaluate – their own expertise and learning. She also explores how people evaluate others’ expertise, especially in the context of gender, and how gender bias can affect professional outcomes.
Professor Atir earned her B.Sc. in Psychology at Yale University, and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University.
Selected Published Journal Articles
Atir, S. & Dunning, D. (2025). Learning More Than You Can Know: Introductory Education Produces Overly Expansive Self-Assessments of Knowledge Management Science
Atir, S. & Risen, J. (2025). The paradox of explaining: When feeling unknowledgeable prevents learners from engaging in effective learning strategies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Atir, S. & Rosenzweig, E. & Dunning, D. (2025). When do people claim to know the unknowable? The impact of informational context on overclaiming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Atir, S. & Rosenzweig, E. & Dunning, D. (2024). Does expertise protect against overclaiming false knowledge? Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Prabhakaran, V. & Mostafazadeh Davani, A. & Ferguson, M. & Atir, S. (2023). Distinguishing Address vs. Reference Mentions of Personal Names in Text Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
Atir, S. & Zhao, X. & Echelbarger, M. (2023). Talking to strangers: Intention, competence, and opportunity Current Opinion in Psychology
Atir, S. (2022). Girlboss? Highlighting versus downplaying gender through language Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Atir, S. & Wald, K. & Epley, N. (2022). Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Epley, N. & Kardas, M. & Zhao, X. & Atir, S. & Schroeder, J. (2022). Undersociality: Miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Swallow, K. & Atir, S. (2019). The role of value in the attentional boost effect Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Atir, S. & Ferguson, M. (2018). How gender determines the way we speak about professionals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Atir, S. & Rosenzweig, E. & Dunning, D. (2015). When knowledge knows no bounds: Self-perceived expertise predicts claiming of impossible knowledge Psychological Science
Atir, S. & Rosenzweig, E. & Dunning, D. (2015). When Knowledge Knows No Bounds Psychological Science
Atir, S. & Epley, N. Fleeting generalization: How unstable belief updating keeps people overly pessimistic about talking to strangers Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
WSB Stories
- Assistant Professor Stav Atir’s Research Featured in Harvard Business Review - October 3, 2024
- WSB Scholars Awarded Competitive Grants To Explore the Intersections of Business and Diversity Science - September 5, 2024
- Shaping the Future of Business Through Academic Research - September 3, 2024
- ‘Girlboss:’ A Conversation with WSB’s Stav Atir on Language and Gender - June 1, 2023
- New WSB Faculty Define What’s Next in Business - November 11, 2021
WSB Stories
Assistant Professor Stav Atir’s Research Featured in Harvard Business Review
WSB Scholars Awarded Competitive Grants To Explore the Intersections of Business and Diversity Science
Shaping the Future of Business Through Academic Research
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