Debiasing egocentrism and optimism biases in repeated competitions

When judging their likelihood of success in competitive tasks, people tend to be overoptimistic for easy tasks and overpessimistic for hard tasks (the shared circumstance effect; SCE). Previous research has shown that feedback and experience from repeated-play competitions has a limited impact on SC...

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Main Authors: Jason P. Rose, Paul D. Windschitl, Andrew R. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2012-11-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/12/12703a/jdm12703a.pdf