Confidence Enhanced Performance

By Olivier Compte, Andrew Postlewaite. 2004

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asymmetric Processing of Objective Information about Yourself (2011, background): “We call this finding the good newsbad news effect.”
Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland (2015, background): “…finally, that an enhanced self-confidence of students educated in single-sex classes can be beneficial in itself since it renders female students less reluctant to choose further education in challenging subjects (see, for example, Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Schneeweis and Zweimüller, 2009).”
Emotional Returns and Emotional Costs in Privately Held Family Businesses: Advancing Traditional Business Valuation (2008, background): “Examples include a more profound analysis of psychological ownership (Pierce, Kostova, & Dirks, 2001), intrinsic motivation (Compte & Postlewaite, 2004; Kreps, 1997; Lambert, 1991), and stewardship behavior (Davis, Schoorman, & Donaldson, 1997; Donaldson & Davis, 1991), to mention but a few.”
As-If Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise? (2010, positive): “Bruni and Sugden (2007) point out problems with this position, some of which Pareto was aware of, and some of which seem to persist in the defenses of rational choice theory offered today.”
A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments (2005, background): “Compte and Postlewaite [11] assume that confident people are more likely to succeed.”
Overconfidence in Forecasts of Own Performance: An Experimental Study (2009, positive): “Two recent papers that model the benefits of overconfidence are Benabou and Tirole (2002), where overconfidence can help overcome imperfect willpower, and Compte and Postlewaite (2004) where overconfidence increases the chance of success in risky activities.”
SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND LEARNING (2014, background): “…decisions (Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer 2012; Bordalo, Gennaioli, and Shleifer 2013; Koszegi and Szeidl 2013), as well as economic models of “motivated learning” (e.g., Compte and Postlewaite 2004; Gottlieb 2010; Karlsson, Loewenstein, and Seppi 2009), which assume preferences over beliefs.”
Learning Self-Control (2011, background): “…belief about one’s attributes has some intrinsic value (Brunnermeier and Parker, 2005; Kőszegi, 2006; Dal Bo and Tervio, 2008) or induces motivation (Benabou and Tirole, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004). exponential discount factor δ ∈ (0, 1), and obtains (b− ct) if at = 1 and 0 otherwise.”
Striving for balance in economics : towards a theory of the social determination of behavior (2016, background): “An individual may have in his mind multiple mental models that he can draw upon to interpret the situation he is in, and they may be inconsistent in content and in implications for behavior (D’Andrade, 1995; Swidler, 2001).”
The Dynamic Evolution of Preferences (2007, background): “Compte and Postlewaite (2004) give another justification for welfare-improving effects of perception biases, based on an interaction between beliefs and performance.”
True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence (2011, neutral): “(2004), Compte and Postlewaite (2004) , Z abojn k (2004), Santos-Pinto and Sobel (2005),”
The Bright Side of Managerial Over-Optimism (2016, background): “Although prior analytical work suggests this possibility (e.g., Benabou and Tirole, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Van den Steen, 2004; Hackbarth, 2008; Gervais et al., 2011), little empirical work exists on this topic.”
Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets (2013, background): “…Self-censorship should also not occur when agents can communicate separately with the 57On cognitive dissonance, see Akerlof and Dickens (1982), Schelling (1986), Kuran (1993), Rabin (1994), Bénabou and Tirole (2002, 2004, 2006b), Compte and Postlewaite (2004) and Di Tella et al. (2007).”
Self-confidence and strategic behavior (2017, neutral): “Compte and Postlewaite (2004) assume that performance depends on a person’s confidence and that distorted beliefs can be welfare enhancing.”