Forecasting outcomes of the World Cup 2006 in football: Performance and confidence of bettors and laypeople

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-123

  Andersson, Patric ^a   Memmert, Daniel ^b   Popowicz, Eva ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experts; Judgmental forecasting; Overconfidence; Prediction; Sport forecasting; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549110406     PISSN: 14690292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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