TITLE:
Emotional-Cognitive Overconfidence and Gender
AUTHORS:
Gustavo Maia, Daniel Bonfim, Sergio Da Silva
KEYWORDS:
Gender, Overconfidence, Emotional Overconfidence, Cognitive Overconfidence, Cognitive Reflection, Consumer Choice
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.7 No.2,
February
20,
2020
ABSTRACT: We study the role gender plays in emotional and cognitive overconfidence in a consumer-choice environment. Regardless of age, we find in our sample that males show more emotional and cognitive overconfidence than females do. However, older females are more overconfident in both emotional and cognitive terms. This result can be rationalized by the fact that older females have an edge on their immune system.