General-knowledge overconfidence: a comparison of brazilian and american university students
Mente soc
; 5(1/2): 55-74, 1999.
Article
in English
| Index Psychology - journals
| ID: psi-18077
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RESUMO
People tend be overconfident in their general knowledge.That is, they tend to be more confident in their answers to general-knowlwdge questions than is warranted by the relative frequencey with which their anwers are actualy correc.Suprisingly,cross-national studies have consistenty shown that participants in many Asian conutries exhibit grater genera-knowledge overconfidence than participants in Great Britain and the United States. Because none of this cross-national rese
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Brazil
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Language:
English
Journal:
Mente soc
Year:
1999
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Article
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California State University/Estados Unidos
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Westerner Washington University/Estados Unidos