How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?


Murad Z., Sefton M., Starmer C.

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol.52, no.1, pp.21-46, 2016 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier

  • Nəşrin Növü: Article / Article
  • Cild: 52 Say: 1
  • Nəşr tarixi: 2016
  • Doi nömrəsi: 10.1007/s11166-016-9231-1
  • jurnalın adı: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • Jurnalın baxıldığı indekslər: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Səhifə sayı: pp.21-46
  • Açar sözlər: Experiment, Overconfidence, Risk preferences, Underconfidence
  • Açıq Arxiv Kolleksiyası: Məqalə
  • Adres: Yox

Qısa məlumat

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.