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Direct linkMengtian Xia; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Child Development, 2024
Children tend to overestimate their performance on a variety of tasks and activities. The present meta-analysis examines the specificity of this phenomenon across age, tasks, and more than five decades of historical time (1968-2021). Self-overestimation was operationalized as the ratio between children's prospective self-estimates of task…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Ability, Performance
