A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments

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Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning (2018, unknown): “In other papers, non-common priors or criteria lead agents to take actions that lead the average agent to expect better outcomes than others (Van den Steen, 2004, Santos-Pinto and Sobel, 2005).”
True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence (2011, unknown): “In economics— where the rationality assumption was long prevalent—the emphasis was a different one: in recent years, various approaches were pursued to reconcile overconfidence with rational behavior (Bénabou and Tirole, 2002; Brocas and Carrillo, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Healy and Moore,”
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica (2008, background): “Most of us consider it important to be regarded positively by others (Brennan and Pettit, 2004; Kuran, 1995), but we also seem to prefer to have a positive view of ourselves independent of the view of others (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Benabou and Tirole, 2002, 2006; Santos-Pinto and Sobel 2005).”