Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values [PDF]
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
Daniel Blaseg, Armin Schwienbacher
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Overplacement and Market Entry Decisions: A Modified Market Entry Game to Detect Nascent Entrepreneurs' Goal‐Motivated Reasoning Amid Radical Uncertainties [PDF]
Strategic ChangeABSTRACTOverplacement, 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 Vörös
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Same or Not the Same? Comparison Between Employees Prone to Overplacement, Overestimation, and Overprecision in Information Security [PDF]
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of theOverconfidence 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 +2 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.
Michael Muthukrishna +5 more
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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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Management accountants' susceptibility to overconfidence: the overplacement perspective [PDF]
, 2022 It has been proved in this dissertation how experimental economics continues to be a tool that, as it nourishes theoretical economics (and viceversa), it keeps producing results that are necessary to understand how to articulate social relations which, ultimately, have consequences oneconomic relations.
Zack Enslin
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Gender differences in overplacement in familiar and unfamiliar tasks: Far more similarities
, 2020 This paper explores gender differences in overplacement in two independent and unrelated tasks. The first measures performance via Raven’s Progressive Matrices test, the second in a video presentation assessed by external judges. While in the first task, we expected participants to have prior knowledge about their own experience in similar tasks, we ...
Pablo Brañas‐Garza +2 more
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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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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, Incentives and Digit Ratio. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 This paper contributes to a better understanding of the biological underpinnings of overconfidence by analyzing performance predictions in the Cognitive Reflection Test with and without monetary incentives.
Neyse L, Bosworth S, Ring P, Schmidt U.
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