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Joy leads to Overconfidence, and a Simple Remedy [PDF]

, 2012
Overconfidence has been identified as a source of suboptimal decision making in many real- life domains, and it often has far-reaching consequences. Here, we demonstrate a causal mechanism that leads to overconfidence and show a simple, effective remedy ...
Koellinger, Ph.D. (Philipp), Treffers, T. (Theresa)   +1 more
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Does the Better-Than-Average Effect Show That People Are Overconfident?: An Experiment. [PDF]

We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overconfident, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by ...
Benoît, Jean-Pierre, Dubra, Juan, Moore, Don   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Revisiting the Causes of the Pull-to-Centre Effect: Evidence From China. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Yang L, Cai D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Visual Simulation and Subjective Probability Estimation: When Seeing Is Believing

Despite the volume of research examining overprecision, the underlying drivers of individual differences in probability estimations remain elusive. I propose that visual processing through mental simulation of small samples is a cognitive mechanism ...
Kirshner, Samuel N
core   +1 more source

Gap between self-evaluation and actual hand hygiene compliance among health-care workers. [PDF]

J Infect Prev, 2022
Hagiya H, Takase R, Sazumi Y, Nishimura Y, Honda H, Otsuka F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

SPDI: data model for variants and applications at NCBI. [PDF]

Bioinformatics, 2020
Holmes JB, Moyer E, Phan L, Maglott D, Kattman B.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2021
Mongiardino Koch N, Garwood RJ, Parry LA.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Childhood and Adolescence Gender Role Nonconformity and Gender and Sexuality Diversity in Young Adulthood.

JAMA Pediatr, 2023
Marino JL, Lin A, Davies C, Kang M, Bista S, Skinner SR.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Investigation of Proposed Techniques for Quantifying Confidence in Assurance Arguments [PDF]

The use of safety cases in certification raises the question of assurance argument sufficiency and the issue of confidence (or uncertainty) in the argument's claims.
Graydon, Patrick J., Holloway, C. Michael   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Gender inequality and national gender gaps in overconfidence. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Amirkhanyan H, Krawczyk MW, Wilamowski M.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source