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Reducing within-group overconfidence through group identity and between-group confidence judgments

Brookins, Philip; Lucas, Adriana; Ryvkin, Dmitry - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014

Overconfidence in one's relative performance within a group is a wide-spread phenomenon. Similar to individual (or … within-group) overconfidence, it was also shown that individuals are, on average, overconfident about the performance of … their group relative to other groups. We hypothesize that this between-group overconfidence should mitigate within …

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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; van de Ven, Jeroen - 2013

salient perturbations, we propose a strategic foundation of overconfidence. Since overconfident statements are used in …

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Confidence and career choices: An experiment

Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 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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Information and competition entry

Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Image and misreporting

Ewers, Mara; Zimmermann, Florian - 2012

In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary...

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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...

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