Overconfidence and its Influence on Risk

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Psychology - Industrial and organizational psychology, grade: 1.7, University of Passau, course: Behavioral Economics and the Seven Sins, language: English, abstract: In a study conducted in 1980 drivers were surveyed about their driving skills in comparison to a group of others. In her experiment, Svenson analyses how people judge their own skill an...