Formal probability models of group decision making imply that the normative influence of large opinion factions tends to have a negative impact on the quality of decisions in difficult tasks and a positive impact in easy tasks that many people solve ...
The literature about research on people's confidence in their general knowledge has usually reported an overconfidence effect (mean subjective probability is higher than percentage of correct answers) with tasks of moderate and extreme difficulty. With ...
This paper addresses measurement and conceptual issues related to the realism of people’s confidence judgments about their own cognitive abilities. We employed three cognitive tests: listening and reading subtests from the Test of English as a Foreign ...
Abstract. Agreeableness is generally thought to be a personality trait with positive outcomes, especially with regards to the creation and maintenance of harmonious interpersonal relationships. The potential negative consequences of agreeableness are ...
Abstract. In a market entry game, the number of entrants usually approaches game-theoretic equilibrium quickly, but in real-world markets business start-ups typically exceed market capacity, resulting in chronically high failure rates and suboptimal ...
Abstract. Students are often overconfident in educational settings and struggle to differentiate between well-learned and poorly-learned concepts. The present article reviews current research on strategies that help students assess ...