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Gender and confidence: are women underconfident?

Applied Economics Letters, 2012
Previous research finds that schoolgirls tend to be underconfident with respect to their mathematics performance, while schoolboys tend to be overconfident. We asked Swedish university students (aged 18–35) what grade they thought they would get in a macroeconomics exam 1 week later.
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Exploring a mnemonic debiasing account of the underconfidence-with-practice effect.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Judgments of learning (JOLs) underestimate the increase in recall that occurs with repeated study (the underconfidence-with-practice effect; UWP). The authors explore an account in terms of a foresight bias in which JOLs are inflated when the to-be-recalled target highlights aspects of the cue that are not transparent when the cue appears alone and the
Asher, Koriat, Hilit, Ma'ayan, Limor, Sheffer, Robert A, Bjork   +3 more
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The role of memory for past test in the underconfidence with practice effect.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
According to the Memory for Past Test (MPT) heuristic, judgments of learning (JOLs) may be based, in part, on memory for the correctness of answers on a previous test. The authors explored MPT as the source of the underconfidence with practice effect (UWP; A. Koriat, L. Sheffer, & H.
Bridgid, Finn, Janet, Metcalfe
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Prospective metamemory, like retrospective metamemory, exhibits underconfidence with practice.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
The majority of research on metamemory focuses on retrospective memory: memory for past events. Prospective memory, in contrast, refers to the process of remembering to carry out intentions in the future. Despite claims that metacognition is essential to prospective remembering, it is unclear whether the metamemorial effects that researchers have ...
John T. West, Neil W. Mulligan
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Comparing objective and subjective learning curves: Judgments of learning exhibit increased underconfidence with practice.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2002
When participants studied a list of paired associates for several study-test cycles, their judgments of learning (JOLs) exhibited relatively good calibration on the 1st cycle, with a slight overconfidence. However, a shift toward marked underconfidence occurred from the 2nd cycle on.
Asher, Koriat, Limor, Sheffer, Hilit, Ma'ayan   +2 more
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Influence of Over-and Underconfidence on Marriage Market [PDF]

, 2008
This paper is an examination of the influence of an individual’s self-confidence (over- confidence or underconfidence) on others in the marriage market. We consider a model in which there are three types of men and women according to marital charm, and some men/women overestimate/underestimate their own types.
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Questioning Portrayals of ‘Female Underconfidence’ in Entrepreneurship

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021
Jennifer E Jennings, Zahid Rahman, Dianna Dempsey   +2 more
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Does underconfidence matter in short-term and long-term investment decisions? Evidence from an emerging market

Management Decision, 2021
Maqsood Ahmad
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Mediation between financial risk tolerance and equity ownership: assessing the role of financial knowledge underconfidence

Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 2021
Wookjae Heo, Abed Rabbani, Jae Min Lee
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Note for underconfidence

2022
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