How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?

Murad, Zahra, Sefton, Martin and Starmer, Chris (2016) How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 52 (1). pp. 21-46. ISSN 1573-0476

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Abstract

We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former procedure reproduces the “hard-easy effect” (underconfidence in easy tasks and overconfidence in hard tasks) found in a large number of studies using non-incentivised self-reports. The latter procedure produces general underconfidence, which is significantly reduced, but not eliminated when we filter out the effects of risk attitudes. Finally, we find that self-reported confidence correlates significantly with features of individual risk attitudes including parameters of individual probability weighting.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/774774
Keywords: Overconfidence; Underconfidence; Experiment; Risk preferences
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-016-9231-1
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2016 14:56
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:34
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/32955

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