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Overestimating the Self, Outranking the Group: An Experimental Study of Overconfidence Biases in Young Decision-Makers [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Cognitive 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 Guner Gültekin
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Overplacement and Market Entry Decisions: A Modified Market Entry Game to Detect Nascent Entrepreneurs' Goal‐Motivated Reasoning Amid Radical Uncertainties

Strategic Change
ABSTRACT Overplacement, a form of overconfidence characterized by the distorted belief that one is better than others, is considered a key driver of nascent entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship literature typically associates entrepreneurial overplacement with negative outcomes and attributes it to erroneous information processing ...
Zsófia Voros
exaly   +3 more sources

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.
Michael Muthukrishna, Joseph Henrich, Wataru Toyokawa, Takeshi Hamamura, Tatsuya Kameda, Steven J Heine   +5 more
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Interaction between overconfidence effects and training formats in nurses’ education in hand hygiene [PDF]

BMC Nursing
Background 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, Milena Trifunovic-Koenig, Bianka Gerber, Baerbel Otto, Michael Bentele, Martin R. Fischer, Stefan Bushuven   +6 more
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Learning motivation and self-assessment in health economics: a survey on overconfidence in healthcare providers [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction 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, Oliver Schoeffski, Stefan Bushuven, Michael Bentele, Milena Trifunovic-Koenig, Bianka Gerber, Stefanie Bentele, Fritz Hagen, Hartwig Marung   +8 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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Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Nascent 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
exaly   +4 more sources

Same or Not the Same? Comparison Between Employees Prone to Overplacement, Overestimation, and Overprecision in Information Security

Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the
Overconfidence has been shown to have a detrimental effect on information security in enterprises. However, research on this systematic misperception of one’s abilities and skills is fragmented, and evidence on who is at risk of overconfidence is scarce.
FRANK, Muriel-Larissa, Wacker, Mara, Ranft, Lukas Manuel   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Construction and validation of an overconfidence scale in investment decisions

Future Business Journal
Existing studies that directly measure the three types of overconfidence—overprecision, overplacement, and overestimation—are largely exploratory, highlighting the need for further confirmatory research to establish robust overconfidence measures ...
Daniel Fonseca Costa, Bruno Cesar De Melo Moreira   +1 more
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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, Ernesto Mesa-Vázquez, Noelia Rivera-Garrido   +2 more
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