Judgmental overconfidence: Three measures, one bias?

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-154

  Fellner, Gerlinde ^a   Krügel, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; Miscalibration; Overconfidence; Signal perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054875646     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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