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When deciding creates overconfidence
Judgment and Decision MakingTo the known causes of overconfidence in decisions and judgments, we reveal another source that derives from a bias during the act of decision making.
Peter J. Boyle +2 more
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Overconfidence in Currency Markets [PDF]
This paper tests the influential hypothesis, typically attributed to Friedman (1953), that irrational traders will be driven out of financial markets by trading losses. The paper’s main finding is that overconfident currency dealers are not driven out of
Carol Osler, Thomas Oberlechner
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori +1 more
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"I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior [PDF]
Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior.
Maria Minniti +2 more
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Entrepreneurship and Debt: Growth Aversion, Debt Aversion, Overconfidence, and the Effects on Small Business Credit Decisions [PDF]
, 2012 Widespread empirical consistency with the pecking order theory of capital structure (Myers & Majluf, 1984) has led researchers to conclude that small and medium sized enterprises conform to this theory’s predictions.
Bell, Kendon
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Eye &ENT Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping ophthalmology from task‐specific image analysis toward multimodal, longitudinal, and clinically integrated decision support. This narrative review summarizes the methodological evolution of ophthalmic AI, including traditional machine learning, task‐specific deep learning, self‐supervised learning ...
Yuxin Liu, Hanruo Liu
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Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach [PDF]
We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an individual's decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data.
Maria Minniti +2 more
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The Power to Care for Oneself: Power Increases Self‐Compassion
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sense of power and self‐compassion both impact important intrapsychic and interpersonal outcomes. However, how powerholders treat themselves when experiencing failure or personal setbacks is unclear. We propose that powerholders are more apt than their lower‐power counterparts to exhibit self‐compassion when faced with difficulties. Across six
Robert Körner +4 more
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Entrepreneurial success and failure: Confidence and fallible judgement [PDF]
Excess entry – or the high failure rate of market-entry decisions – is often attributed to overconfidence exhibited by entreprene urs. We show analytically that whereas excess entry is an inevitable consequence of imperfect assessments of entrepreneurial
Robin Hogarth, Natalia Karelaia
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Everyone Knows It's a Hoax: The Role of Perceived Descriptive Norms in Conspiracy Beliefs
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People's belief in conspiracy theories is shaped by social influence processes. This contribution investigated these processes in six studies (total N = 2906) by examining the role of descriptive norms, that is, the perception that others endorse conspiracy theories.
Jan‐Willem van Prooijen +3 more
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