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When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task

Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others’ choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type of task. In both experiments p...

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Autores principales: Dorfman, Anna, Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, Moran, Simone
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23799001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065092
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description Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others’ choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type of task. In both experiments participants chose between two lotteries, one offering a larger prize than the other. Participants’ entry into the chosen lottery was either related or unrelated to their skill, with the final prize allocated randomly to one of the entrants in each lottery. Importantly, across conditions skill was irrelevant to choosing between lotteries. Notwithstanding, when skill was related to determining lottery entrants, participants who felt highly skillful chose the high prize lottery excessively. Results further suggest that this stems from high confidence in self skill, rather than incorrect expectations regarding others.
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spelling pubmed-36830362013-06-24 When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task Dorfman, Anna Bereby-Meyer, Yoella Moran, Simone PLoS One Research Article Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others’ choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type of task. In both experiments participants chose between two lotteries, one offering a larger prize than the other. Participants’ entry into the chosen lottery was either related or unrelated to their skill, with the final prize allocated randomly to one of the entrants in each lottery. Importantly, across conditions skill was irrelevant to choosing between lotteries. Notwithstanding, when skill was related to determining lottery entrants, participants who felt highly skillful chose the high prize lottery excessively. Results further suggest that this stems from high confidence in self skill, rather than incorrect expectations regarding others. Public Library of Science 2013-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3683036/ /pubmed/23799001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065092 Text en © 2013 Dorfman et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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