APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Cultural Differences in Overconfidence

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · General

  • Don Moore
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Amelia Dev
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Ekaterina Goncharova
    University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

We compare three forms of overconfidence between participants from traditionally collectivistic and individualistic cultures. Overestimation and overplacement do not show systematic cultural differences. However, we find that overprecision is greater in collectivistic cultures.

Judgment and Decision Making

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