Anderson, Cameron; Brion, Sebastien; Moore, Don A.; … - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), … - 2012
In explaining the prevalence of the overconfident belief that one is better than others, prior work has focused on the motive to maintain high self-esteem, abetted by biases in attention, memory, and cognition.An additional possibility is that overconfidence enhances the person’s social...