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A test of the overconfidence phenomenon using audio signals
Y Bar-Tal1, A Sarid, L Kishon-Rabin
1Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel. yoramb@post.tau.ac.il
The Journal of General Psychology
|March 30, 2001
Abstract:
The existence of the overconfidence phenomenon was examined using a signal detection paradigm. Fifty-five participants were asked to decide whether they heard a signal or noise only, and to rate how certain they were of their decisions. The results confirmed the existence of overconfidence as well as the "hard-easy" effect.