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Is underconfidence favored over overconfidence? : an experiment on the perception of a biased self-assessment

Thoma, Carmen - 2013

observe that underconfidence beats overconfidence in both respects. Underconfident subjects are rewarded significantly more …

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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself

Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2014

We analyze how subjects' self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their self-assessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...

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Confidence and career choices : an experiment

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

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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams

Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018

models of social learning to investigate the micro-level mechanisms. We find that overconfidence and conservatism contribute …

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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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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017

We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported … top half. We find evidence of aggregate overconfidence only in a treatment that receives minimal feedback on performance … in a trial task. In treatments that receive more detailed feedback, aggregate overconfidence is not observed although …

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