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Don A. Moore - Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES

Don A. Moore

Professor | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES

Researcher of confidence and overconfidence, with a focus on forecasting, judgment, and decision making

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Areas of Expertise (4)

Ethical Choice

Decision-Making

Overconfidence

Negotiation

About

Don Moore is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication at Berkeley Haas and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He received his PhD in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research interests include overconfidence—including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when they are too sure they know the truth. He is only occasionally overconfident.

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Education (3)

Northwestern University: PhD, Organization Behavior 2000

Northwestern University: MS, Organization Behavior 1998

Carleton College: BA Magna Cum Laude, Psychology 1993

Honors & Awards (7)

Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow

2011– 2014

Best Paper Award

Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management 2011

IARPA Research Grant

Awarded for grant for: Exploring the Optimal Forecasting Frontier with B. Mellers and P. Tetlock 2011 – 2015

Cummings Scholar Award

Awarded from the Academy of Management, recognizing “significant scholarly achievement during the early- to mid-career stage” 2007

Best Paper Award, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management

2007

Weil Prize (CMU)

Awarded for the paper “Bayesian overconfidence” with Paul J. Healy 2007

National Science Foundation

Research grant for: Correspondence Bias in Performance Appraisal: Why Selecting an Easy Task is a Recipe for Success with Francesca Gino, Zachariah Sharek, and Samuel Swift 2007 – 2009

Selected External Service & Affiliations (6)

  • Editorial Board of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2015 – present)
  • Editorial Board of Psychological Science (2015 – present)
  • Editorial Board of Judgment and Decision Making (2012 – present)
  • Editorial Board of Administrative Science Quarterly (2009 -2013)
  • Editorial Board of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2007 – 2009)
  • Editorial Board of Organization Science (2007 – 2010)

Positions Held (1)

At Haas since 2010

2021 – present, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 2016 – present, Professor, Management of Organizations Group, Haas School of Business 2010 – 2016, Associate Professor, Management of Organizations Group, Haas School of Business Courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 2015 – present, Faculty Director, Xlab 2000 – 2010, Assistant to Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Media Appearances (15)

Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business School - Working Knowledge  

2022-04-27

In the new book “Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices," Professor Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication and associate dean for Academic Affairs, and his co-author contend that a leader’s success depends not just on making good decisions but on helping other people do so as well.

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How Business School Research Enriches the MBA Student Experience

FIND MBA  online

2022-03-01

Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication and associate dean for Academic Affairs, said a b-school’s academic research can inform what faculty teaches in the MBA classroom. Also, “the scholarly productivity of the faculty contributes greatly to the school’s reputation and therefore the long-term value of the student’s degree,” he said.

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An Empirical Audit

The Last Word on Nothing  online

2021-11-17

Leif Nelson, the Ewald T. Grether Professor in Business Administration & Marketing, and Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, asked PhD students to audit research about scarcity mindset to determine if it's well-supported by evidence. Scarcity mindset is the idea that poverty alters how people allocate their attention, making them worse at certain kinds of decision-making. Just four of the 20 studies the students tried to replicate worked out.

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"‘Something Rotten’ — Are Auditors Too Cozy With Boards?"

Financial Times  online

2021-03-05

"This case seems to me to be diagnostic of a much deeper problem,” says Prof. Don Moore, Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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A germophobe's guide to calculating Thanksgiving risk

San Francisco Chronicle  online

2020-11-18

While it's not possible to predict the future, it's possible to use available information forecast probable outcomes, writes Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, in this op-ed.

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Confidence Doesn’t Always Boost Performance

Harvard Business Review  online

2020-11-01

Research by Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, shows that confidence doesn't always help people perform better. "People who were told that they would perform well and felt positively about how they’d do fared no better than those who were told that they would get most of the answers wrong and were worried about it," he said of his research results.

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Election Polls Are Only 60 Percent Accurate, Which Is 0 Percent Surprising.

California Magazine  online

2020-10-30

“He got some flack for his forecasts that Hillary would win with 70 percent probability,” says Moore. “Should we be outraged that an outcome occurred, Trump winning the election, that Silver only gave a 30 percent probability? No, things with 30 percent probability happen all the time. If you think there’s a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow, there’s a good chance you’re gonna bring your umbrella.”

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Here’s why some are too optimistic about the pandemic

Marketplace  online

2020-10-15

According to Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, "salience bias" may be affecting how we think of the pandemic.

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The Truth about Confidence: 4 Steps to Calibrate Self-Perception

Inverse  online

2020-10-03

According to Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication and author of the recent book Perfectly Confident, conventional wisdom around confidence is often flat-out wrong.

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How Imposter Syndrome Might Be Holding Your Business Back — And How to Tackle It

U.S. Chamber of Commerce News  online

2020-09-21

Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, cautions against comparing yourself to the best of the best when you should be comparing yourself to people who are "good enough" at whatever you're doing. "

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Confidence: How it can help us

BBC World Service  online

2020-08-23

Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, said underconfidence is a real problem, "and there are circumstances in which people sabotage their own chances for success. Each of us has enormous untapped potential."

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Why Job Interviews Are BS (and Racist)

The Startup  online

2020-07-18

According to Don Moore from the Haas School of Business, the poor ability of interviews to assess future job performance is “one of the best-established findings in the field of organizational and industrial psychology.”

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A Champion Poker Player on How to Make Better Decisions

Advisor Perspectives  online

2020-07-14

She recently was interviewed in a live YouTube session by Don Moore, who studies overconfidence and is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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The weird psychological effect of a no-deal Brexit deadline

WIRED UK  online

2020-07-07

“In the absence of a deadline or delay that is costly, there's a temptation to hold out a little bit longer, or gather a little bit more information,” says Don Moore, a professor at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, who studies the psychology of confidence with a focus on decision-making and negotiations.

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Risky Business: Calibrating confidence when making decisions

Philadelphia Inquirer  online

2020-05-31

In this op-ed, Prof. Don Moore, the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication, talks about the the risks of underconfidence and overconfidence. Both are errors, he says, and the only cure is accurate information.

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Selected Papers & Publications (6)

Overconfidence across cultures


Collabra

Don A. Moore, Amelia S. Dev, and Ekaterina Y. Goncharova

2018

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Is overconfidence a motivated bias? Experimental evidence.


Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Don A. Moore, Jennifer M. Logg, and Uriel Haran

2018

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Is overconfidence a social liability? The effect of verbal versus nonverbal expressions of confidence


Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Don Moore, Cameron Anderson, Elizabeth Tenney, Nathan Meikle, and David Hunsaker

2018

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Many labs 5: Registered multisite replication of tempting-fate effects in Gilovich and Risen (2008)


Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2008)

Mathur, M. B., et al.

2008

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The category size bias: A mere misunderstanding


Judgment and Decision Making

Don A. Moore, Leif D. Nelson, and Hannah Perfecto

2018

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Redefine statistical significance


Nature Human Behavior

Benjamin, D. J. et al.

2017

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Teaching (2)

Leading People

MBA 205

Executive Decision Making

Executive Decision Making

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