ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES, Vol.74 Issue 02
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Previous studies have revealed surprising and persistent cross-cultural variations in overconfidence, whereby respondents in some Asian cultures (e.g., Chinese) exhibit markedly higher degrees of overconfidence than respondents in other cultures (e.g., in the United States and Japan). Most of those demonstrations have entailed general knowledge tasks (e.g., answering We are especially grateful to Kevin Biolsi for his assistance in programming the experiments described here and to Jonathan Emmett, LeAnn Franke, and Joe Magee for their help in collecting and processing the data. We also appreciate the useful discussions we have had about this research with other members of the Michigan Culture and Cognition Program as well as the comments on a previous version of this article provided by Ido Erev and an anonymous reviewer.
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