A Status-enhancement account overconfidence. [article].

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 status...

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Main Author: Anderson, Cameron
Format: Analytics
Language:English
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