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Ayse Payir; Gaye Soley; Oya Serbest; Kathleen H. Corriveau; Paul L. Harris – Child Development, 2024
Children and adults express greater confidence in the existence of invisible scientific as compared to invisible religious entities. To further examine this differential confidence, 5- to 11-year-old Turkish children and their parents (N = 174, 122 females) from various regions in Türkiye, a country with an ongoing tension between secularism and…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Conflict, Beliefs, Psychological Patterns
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Moore, Don A.; Healy, Paul J. – Psychological Review, 2008
The authors present a reconciliation of 3 distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (a) overestimation of one's actual performance, (b) overplacement of one's performance relative to others, and (c) excessive precision in one's beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first 2 (apparent…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Literature, Self Esteem, Confidence Testing