Overconfidence in Political Behavior

By Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg. 2015

342 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. J. Krosnick
2. Gaurav Sood
3. Josh Pasek
4. Kosuke Imai
5. Ronald B. Larson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. Krosnick
2. Gaurav Sood
3. Josh Pasek
4. Kosuke Imai
5. Justin T. Pickett
6. Ronald B. Larson

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. J. Krosnick
2. Gaurav Sood
3. Josh Pasek

Citations in the corpus

• Misinformed About the Affordable Care Act? Leveraging Certainty to Assess the Prevalence of Misperceptions (2015, positive): “And finally, individuals who hold identical beliefs with identical levels of certainty may nonetheless answer certainty questions differently either because of overconfidence (Ortoleva & Snowberg, 2013) or because they interpret the meanings of the rating scale points differently.”
• Learning About Voter Rationality (2018, neutral): “The growing literature making this comparison in models of electoral accountability has focused on normative questions (Ashworth and Bueno de Mesquita 2014; Callander and Wilson 2008; Diermeier and Li 2013; Levy and Razin 2015a, 2015b; Lockwood 2017; Ortoleva and Snowberg 2015; Patty 2006).”