Overconfidence is universal? Elicitation of genuine overconfidence (EGO) procedure reveals systematic differences across domain, task knowledge, and incentives in four populations

Overconfidence is sometimes assumed to be a human universal, but there remains a dearth of data systematically measuring overconfidence across populations and contexts. Moreover, cross-cultural experiments often fail to distinguish between placement and precision and worse still, often compare popul...

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Main Authors: Muthukrishna, M., Henrich, J., Toyokawa, W., Hamamura, Takeshi, Kameda, T., Heine, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72944