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Elizabeth W. Dunn

Elizabeth W. Dunn PhD

Psychiatry
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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I am interested in self-knowledge and its shortcomings, including beliefs about oneself and others that people cannot or will not report. Specifically, I study mental biases that exist outside conscious awareness, leading people to make inaccurate predictions about their future well-being and to make prejudiced judgments of others. In my main line of research, I investigate how and why people misunderstand what will make them happy. In a secondary line of research, I examine how people activate, inhibit, apply, and transmit stereotypes unintentionally.
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