Self-confidence, Overconfidence and Prenatal Testosterone Exposure: Evidence from the Lab

This paper examines whether foetal testosterone exposure predicts the extent of confidence and over-confidence in own absolute ability in adulthood. To study this question, we elicited incentive-compatible measures of confidence and over-confidence in the lab and correlate them with measures of righ...

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Main Authors: Patricio S. Dalton, Sayantan Ghosal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00005/full