Overconfidence and Social Signalling

By Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz F. Goette, Aldo Rustichini. 2013

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Finance, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9991c5828fd6f161d227df64d88ed7e208afedba

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Citations in the corpus

• The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, unknown): “19 For example, willingness to pay for an assessment of one's IQ or beauty (relative to others) increases as one's subjective prior belief about this assessment becomes more favorable (Eil and Rao, 2011; Möbius et al., 2011; Burks et al., 2013).”
• The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs (2020, background): “Recently, Burks et al. (2013) as well as Benoît, Dubra, and Moore (2015) have found overconfident data patterns that cannot be explained by Bayesian reasoning.”
• Self-confidence and strategic behavior (2017, unknown): “2 In an environment of incomplete information, this is not per se conclusive evidence of overconfidence (Benoit and Dubra 2011; Burks et al. 2013).”