Identifying the Effects of Unjustified Confidence versus Overconfidence: Lessons Learned from Two Analytic Methods

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 134-145

  Parker, Andrew M ^a   Stone, Eric R ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Individual differences; Judgment; Metacognition; Overconfidence; Perceived knowledge; Unjustified confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896317631     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1787     Document Type: Article

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