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19 Thursday, 29 October 2015 Feeling like you're an expert can make you closed-minded FACT What happens to us as we accrue knowledge and experience, as we become experts in a field? Competence followS. Effortlessness follows (pdf). 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 I'M AN EXPERT ON THE DEPICTIONS OF WOMEN IN VIDEO GAMES Victor Ottati at Loyola University and his colleagues manipulated their student participants to feel relative experts or novices in a chosen field, through easy questions like "Who is the current President of the United States?" or tough ones like "Who was Nixon's initial Vice-President?" and through providing feedback to enforce the participants' feelings of knowledge or ignorance. Those students manipulated to feel more expert subsequently acted less open-minded toward the same topic, as judged by their responses to items such as l am open to considering other political viewpoints." "Not listening ." People's perceptions of their all-round expertise provoked in the students via an easy rather than a hard trivia quiz- also led them to display a close-mindedness in general, even though it was the participants who took the hard quiz who failed more, and reported feeling more insecure, irritable and negative - ingredients that are normally associated with close-mindedness. This isn't to say that these emotional states didn't have any effect, just thatse-mindedness. This igt ins, imtable and t was swamped by perceptions of expertise. The These findings are somewhat counterintuitive because there are good reasons to have expected the opposite results. Firstly, real-life experts take a long road that involves acquiring and synthesising new information, at times requiring them to flip their way of thinking about things for instance, a chemist might recall how atoms operated one way in early grade science, only for later schooling to reveal a very different picture. As such, dogmatism is an obstacle to true expertise. Secondly, research on stress and emotion tells us that feeling relaxed and successful- as you might expect an expert to feel more than a novice - new way of thinking about

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