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Why are some graduate entrepreneurs more innovative than others? : the effect of human capital, psychological factor and entrepreneurial rewards on entrepreneurial innovativeness

Li, Jun; Qu, Jingjing; Huang, Qihai - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 30 (2018) 5/6, pp. 479-501

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Toward rigor and parsimony : a primary validation of Kolvereid's (1996) entrepreneurial attitudes scales

McNally, Jeffrey J.; Martin, Bruce C.; Honig, Benson; … - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 28 (2016) 5/6, pp. 358-379

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Men are from Mars, and women too : a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Bandiera, Oriana; Parekh, Nidhi; Petrongolo, Barbara; … - 2021

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020

Confidence in one's own abilities is often seen as an important determinant of being successful. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal...

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Deception and self-deception

Schwardmann, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2017

Why are people so often overconfident? We conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that people become overconfident to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed that they can earn money by convincing others...

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064447

Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2018

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers...

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Does having insurance change individuals self-confidence?

Guber, Raphael; Kocher, Martin; Winter, Joachim - 2018

Recent research in contract theory on the effects of behavioral biases implicitly assumes that they are stable, in the sense of not being affected by the contracts themselves. In this paper, we provide evidence that this is not necessarily the case. We show that in an insurance context, being...

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The influence of overconfidence and competition neglect on entry into competition

Schüssler, Katharina - 2018

I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect … distributions related to absolute as well as relative overconfidence to study it comprehensively and introduce two treatment … variations: First, some participants receive detailed performance feedback addressing absolute and relative overconfidence before …

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