{"id":76364,"date":"2025-11-14T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/overconfidence-effect\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:28:07","slug":"overconfidence-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/overconfidence-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Overconfidence Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cognitive distortion, in which a person&#8217;s confidence in his actions and decisions is much higher than the objective accuracy of these judgments. It is a special case of egoistic error \u2013 a cognitive mechanism for maintaining self-esteem. Those in power often tend to overestimate their competence and control over the situation, which can lead to strategic mistakes and underestimating the opponent in the negotiation process.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cognitive distortion, in which a person&#8217;s confidence in his actions and decisions is much higher than the objective accuracy of these judgments. It is a special case of egoistic error \u2013 a cognitive mechanism for maintaining self-esteem. Those in power often tend to overestimate their competence and control over the situation, which can lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-12-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychology-of-conflict-resolution-in-negotiation-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}