sessments were more calibrated to their actual performance. In fact, the training information actually enabled incompetent participants to assess their performance just as accurately as the competent participants. Thus, these results demonstrate that competence and knowledge of an ability also enables a person to more accurately assess his or her own performance in that ability (Kruger & Dunning, 1999) . This research also demonstrates the biases that can occur in judgment about one’s self, especially when there is a lack of knowledge. Research, both past and present, has provided much support for the presence and of affect attributional and judgment biases. Attributional biases affect the way people interpret and perceive their own actions and the actions of others. Judgment biases, by affecting one’s reasoning and decision making skills, also affect the way in which people explain the world around them. Thus, through this investigation of attributional biases and judgment biases, the way in which people’s cognitive processes can affect the way they view themselves and their own behaviors, as well as their perceptions of others is demonstrated.. ...
