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Peer reviewedLundeberg, Mary A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
Gender differences in item-specific confidence judgments were studied for 70 male and 181 female college students. Gender differences in confidence were dependent on context and the domain being tested. Both men and women were overconfident, but men were especially overconfident when incorrect. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Confidence Testing, Context Effect, Difficulty Level
