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One manifestation of the overconfidence effect is the tendency to overestimate one's standing on a dimension of judgment or performance. This subsection of overconfidence focuses on the certainty one feels in their own ability, performance, level of control, or chance of success.
Some researchers include a metacognitive component in their definition. In this view, the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence.
The phenomenon is also known as the above-average effect, the superiority bias, the leniency error, the sense of relative superiority, the primus inter pares effect, [1] and the Lake Wobegon effect, named after the fictional town where all the children are above average. [2]
Male common stock investors trade 45% more than their female counterparts, which they attribute to greater recklessness (though also self-confidence) of men, reducing men's net returns by 2.65 percentage points per year versus women's 1.72 percentage points. [79] Women report lower self-confidence levels than men in supervising subordinates. [80]
After a series of easy victories against their opponents, the overconfident Japanese failed to take elementary precautions. Italy's entry in WW2 (1940) followed a series of victories in Libya (1922-1932), Ethiopia (1935-1936), Spain (1936-1939), and Albania (1939), which gave the Fascist regime the illusion of being able to win a global war ...
20965 Ensembl ENSG00000157152 ENSMUSG00000009394 UniProt Q92777 Q64332 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_003178 NM_133625 NM_001111015 NM_013681 NM_001326560 RefSeq (protein) NP_003169 NP_598328 NP_001104485 NP_001313489 NP_038709 Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 12 – 12.19 Mb Chr 6: 115.11 – 115.26 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Synapsin II is the collective name for synapsin IIa and ...
Abnormal psychology has studied egosyntonic and egodystonic concepts in some detail. Many personality disorders are egosyntonic, which makes their treatment difficult as the patients may not perceive anything wrong and view their perceptions and behavior as reasonable and appropriate. [2]
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...