{"id":301,"date":"2014-05-21T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/?p=301"},"modified":"2021-06-12T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T13:29:33","slug":"self-confidence-in-information-processing-experimental-methods-and-evidence-sidak-yntiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/self-confidence-in-information-processing-experimental-methods-and-evidence-sidak-yntiso\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Confidence in Information Processing:  Experimental Methods and Evidence | Sidak Yntiso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do individuals interpret ambiguous feedback optimistically or pessimistically when their self-esteem is at stake? Ertac (2011) finds that generally people overweigh negative performance feedback, which leads to overly-pessimistic beliefs about ability. If these results are valid and generalizable, more studies are necessary to study the effects and extent of pessimism. Towards this end, I have replicated Ertac\u2019s experiment with a number of differences in methodology (performance groups, signal and payment). In confirmation of her findings, after participants received an accurate yet negative signal, there was a significant pessimistic effect in belief updating. This paper also compares belief-accuracy across two types of belief elicitation mechanisms \u2013 the quadratic scoring rule and the crossover mechanism. There is no significant difference in belief accuracy between the two mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/nyuad.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/nyuad\/departments\/social-science\/documents\/JSS\/Spring%20Publication.PDF\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/mongolia-the-question-of-poverty-amidst-socioeconomic-growth-kefa-kabanga\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/abstract.jpg\" alt=\"abstract\" width=\"18\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/self-confidence-in-information-processing-experimental-methods-and-evidence-sidak-yntiso\/\/\">Abstract<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nyuad.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/nyuad\/departments\/social-science\/documents\/JSS\/Spring%20Publication.PDF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pdf.jpg\" alt=\"pdf\" width=\"18\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nyuad.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/nyuad\/departments\/social-science\/documents\/JSS\/Spring%20Publication.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,21],"tags":[45,46,44],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-economics","tag-belief-updating","tag-elicitation-mechanisms","tag-self-confidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/jss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}