Koebel, Bertrand; Schmitt, André; Spaeter, Sandrine - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2015
How people develop beliefs about themselves (self-theories) plays an important role on motivation and achievement as shown by Carol Dweck’s life-long research. In this paper, we conduct a field experiment to investigate whether self-theories impact overconfidence and risk taking. Self-theories...