168: Overconfidence (Don Moore)

September 18, 2016

This episode features a chat with Don Moore, professor of management of organizations at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and an expert in overconfidence. Don and Julia discuss the various forms of overconfidence, whether its upsides are big enough to outweigh its downsides, and what people mean when they insist “I think things are better than they really are.”

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