Overestimating the Self, Outranking the Group: An Experimental Study of Overconfidence Biases in Young Decision-Makers [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesCognitive biases have been proved to have a systematic influence on decision-making at both individual and social levels. This study investigated two forms of overconfidence—specifically, overestimation and overplacement—among young individuals ...
Duygu Güner Gültekin +1 more
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Overconfidence is universal? Elicitation of Genuine Overconfidence (EGO) procedure reveals systematic differences across domain, task knowledge, and incentives in four populations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Overconfidence is sometimes assumed to be a human universal, but there remains a dearth of data systematically measuring overconfidence across populations and contexts.
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Learning motivation and self-assessment in health economics: a survey on overconfidence in healthcare providers [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Lifelong learning is the foundation for professionals to maintain competence and proficiency in several aspects of economy and medicine. Until now, there is no evidence of overconfidence (the belief to be better than others or tested) and ...
Reinhard Strametz +8 more
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Interaction between overconfidence effects and training formats in nurses’ education in hand hygiene [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground Undergraduate training in hand hygiene is a keystone of infection control. Several studies have shown overconfidence effects in hand hygiene practices, which can impair metacognition.
Julia Seidel-Fischer +6 more
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Overconfidence over the lifespan [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2017 This research investigated how different forms of overconfidence correlate with age. Contrary to stereotypes that young people are more overconfident, the results provide little evidence that overestimation of one’s performance or overplacement of one’s ...
Julia P. Prims, Don A. Moore
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Management accountants' susceptibility to overconfidence: the overplacement perspective
Review of Behavioral Finance, 2022 PurposeOverconfidence bias is considered to be a very influential decision-making bias in the business environment. This paper aims to identify the susceptibility of management accountants to overconfidence-related overplacement bias and to determine its pervasiveness among these professionals.Design/methodology/approachTwo international samples of ...
Pablo Branas-Garza +2 more
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Bias in Wages and Time Preferences (An Application of Behavioral Economics) [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2022 The main goal of this article is an applied investigation of one of the types of biases caused by overconfidence, under the heading of bias in expected relative wage (or individual overplacement) and its relationship with time preferences (in the form of
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Overconfidence Across Cultures
Collabra: Psychology, 2018 Overconfidence is a robust cognitive bias with far-reaching implications, but prior research on cultural differences in overconfidence has been conflicting.
Don A. Moore +2 more
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Is overconfidence an individual difference?
Judgment and Decision MakingSome scholars have treated overconfidence as an individual difference—that is, assuming the tendency to be overconfident is stable within a person and differs meaningfully from person to person. We question this assumption.
Sophia Li, Randall Hale, Don A. Moore
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Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeNascent entrepreneurs often believe that their chances of success are better than those of others due to imperfect information about the competencies and accomplishments of other entrepreneurs, leading to overplacement. Theory suggests that the provision of historical outcome data of comparable projects could help entrepreneurs develop more realistic ...
Daniel Blaseg, Armin Schwienbacher
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