Confidence in judgment
Abstract
Experiments have shown that, generally, people are overconfident about the correctness of their answers to questions. Cognitive psychologists have attributed this to biases in the way people generate and handle evidence for and against their views. The overconfidence phenomenon and cognitive psychologists' accounts of its origins have recently given rise to three debates. Firstly, ecological psychologists have proposed that overconfidence is an...
Paper Details
Title
Confidence in judgment
Published Date
May 1, 1997
Journal
Volume
1
Issue
2
Pages
78 - 82
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