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Metacognitive Development and Conceptual Change in Children [PDF]
, 2020 There has been little investigation to date of the way metacognition is involved in conceptual change. It has been recognised that analytic metacognition is important to the way older children acquire more sophisticated scientific and mathematical ...
Shea, Nicholas, Smortchkova, Joulia
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Overconfidence Can Improve an Agent's Relative and Absolute Performance in Contests [PDF]
, 2010 This paper suggests a potential rationale for the recent empirical finding that overconfident agents tend to self-select into more competitive environments (e.g. Dohmen and Falk, forthcoming).
Ludwig, Sandra +2 more
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording +4 more
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Overconfidence and market efficiency with heterogeneous agents [PDF]
We study financial markets in which both rational and overconfident agents coexist and make endogenous information acquisition decisions. We demonstrate the following irrelevance result: when a positive fraction of rational agents (endogeneously) decides
Branko Urosevic +2 more
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The Role of Environmental Uncertainty, Financial Constraints and Accounting Conservatism in Limiting the Performance Outcomes Due to Manager Overconfidence [PDF]
بررسیهای حسابداری و حسابرسی, 2018 Objective: The excessive self-esteem of managers leads to postponing bad news due to weaknesses in performance, and conservatism can be a factor in modifying it. In this paper, the purpose is to examine the role of accounting conservatism in limiting the
Mohsen Rashidi Baqhi
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Overconfidence of Investment Managers and the Performance Assessment Indexes of Mutual Funds [PDF]
راهبرد مدیریت مالی, 2013 To assess the performance of mutual funds, this research uses the indexes of risk, return, portfolio diversification & transaction activity ratio. For the purpose of investigating the relationship between the overconfidence of investment managers and the
Hasan Ghalibaf-Asl +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The integration of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) in higher education is reshaping student engagement, yet its impact on postgraduate international students remains underexplored. This study examines how generative AI shapes postgraduate international students' engagement through a psychological needs perspective.
Olatunji David Adekoya +4 more
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Investigating the Effect of Investors' Behavior and Management on Stock Returns [PDF]
مجله دانش حسابداری, 2018 The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of behavioral variables such as managerial overconfidence, herding behavior and investor sentiment on stock returns.
Kazem Shamsadini (Ph.D) +2 more
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How group identification distorts beliefs [PDF]
, 2019 This paper investigates how group identification distorts people’s beliefs about the ability of their peers in social groups. We find that experimentally manipulated identification with a randomly composed group leads to overconfident beliefs about ...
Cacault, Maria Paula, Grieder, Manuel
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