Emily Pronin

Emily Pronin is an American psychologist who specializes in how people perceive themselves and others and how they make decisions. She is a professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University, with a bachelor degree from Yale University and a doctorate from Stanford University. Her research introduced the bias blind spot, the finding that people see themselves as less biased in judgment and conduct than the average person, in a 2002 paper written with Daniel Lin and Lee Ross. She also developed work on naive realism, coined the term introspection illusion for the mistaken confidence people place in their own self-examination, and has studied how people view their own choices as rational and freely willed while seeing other people as more predictable. A later line of her work examines the effects of thought speed on feeling and risk taking.