Term ID: T3985

Overconfidence Bias

/overconfidence-bias/
The tendency to overestimate one's abilities, knowledge, or chances of success beyond what objective evidence supports.
Example: Students believing they will perform better on exams than their preparation level and past performance would predict.

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Reference: Dunning et al. (1990)