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social science subjects > psychology > social psychology > judgment and decision making > overconfidence
... > social science subjects > business and management > entrepreneurship > new venture management > entrepreneurial decision making > overconfidence

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overconfidence  

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  • Overconfidence is an inflated self-assessment of one's knowledge, answer, or estimate on a task. It is a bias in which a person's subjective confidence of performance is greater than his or her actual performance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Deception; Overconfidence]

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