Paranoia, self-deception and overconfidence.

Self-deception, paranoia, and overconfidence involve misbeliefs about the self, others, and world. They are often considered mistaken. Here we explore whether they might be adaptive, and further, whether they might be explicable in Bayesian terms. We administered a difficult perceptual judgment task...

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Main Authors: Rosa A Rossi-Goldthorpe, Yuan Chang Leong, Pantelis Leptourgos, Philip R Corlett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009453