To communicate effectively, people must have a reasonably accurate idea about what
specific other people know. An obvious starting point for building a model of what another …

For many purposes, people need a reasonably good idea of what other people know. This
article presents an argument and considers evidence that people use their own knowledge …

An exploratory experiment was done to investigate how estimates of what other people
know are influenced by what one knows oneself. Three hypotheses were of interest:(1) that …

Two experiments were performed to investigate the conditions affecting lack-of-knowledge
inferences. The lack-of-knowledge inference is a metainference, an inference based on …

Many studies have demonstrated that subjects exposed to misleading postevent information
are likely to report the misinformation with confidence on subsequent tests of memory for the …

Social cognition research has closely examined the processes that are involved in the
correction for contaminating influences on judgment. Little is known, however, about how a …

People, it is hypothesized, show an asymmetry in assessing their own interpersonal and
intrapersonal knowledge relative to that of their peers. Six studies suggested that people …

This article tests a new model for predicting which aspects of personality are best judged by
the self and which are best judged by others. Previous research suggests an asymmetry in …

In this chapter, I provide argument and evidence that the scope of people's ignorance is
often invisible to them. This meta-ignorance (or ignorance of ignorance) arises because lack …

Explicit knowledge is knowledge that the knower can make explicit by means of a verbal
statement; implicit knowledge is knowledge that is not explicit. Chomskyan tacit knowledge …