Don Moore
Bio:
ASEF mentor 2027. Application for Research Abroad is availabe here.
Don Moore holds the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has served as Associate Dean and Acting Dean. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research has appeared in popular press outlets and academic journals, from Psychological Review to Harvard Business Review. He is the author, most recently, of Decision Leadership with Max Bazerman. He teaches popular classes on managing organizations, negotiation, and decision making. He is only occasionally overconfident.
Research projects:
Don Moore’s research focuses on confidence and overconfidence, including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when people are too sure they know the truth. Moore’s recent research has focused on the last form of overconfidence: excessive certainty in one’s beliefs. Most people claim to be more certain that they deserve to be about the beliefs they hold. Interestingly, artificially intelligent agents appear to show the same tendency.