We use a series of experiments to understand whether and how people’s beliefs about their own abilities are biased relative the Bayesian benchmark these then affect behavior. find that subjects systematically substantially overweight positive feedback negative (asymmetry) also update too little overall (conservatism). These biases less pronounced in an ego-free control experiment. Updating does...

introduction. the aim of medical education is to produce competent , caring physicians. self-confidence is another attribute often considered desirable for physicians. confidence is a key to developing the sense of quantity that has been long recognized as a desirable characteristics of physicians, and confidence has a subjective marker of competence, an analytic descriptive survey was carried ...

the present study aimed at determining resources of sport self-confidence in elite bodybuilders and their relationship with body image. the subjects of study included 35 bodybuilders participating in qualifying tournaments of bodybuilding national team. a questionnaire for resources of sport self-confidence and a questionnaire of physical self-description were used to collect data. kolmogorov–s...