Boys will be boys¶
Barber, B. M., & Odean, T. (2001). Boys will be boys: Gender, overconfidence, and common stock investment. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(1), 261-292.
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Primes¶
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- The intervention in this domain typically takes the form of enforcement mechanisms (position-size limits, leverage caps) rather than metacognitive training, because financial incentives often fail to calibrate confidence without structural constraint.
This sourceDocuments that overconfident investors trade excessively and reduce their returns; supports D16-113 (financial-trading overconfidence — low-skill traders are over-confident relative to their track record). RE-SOURCED: the marker previously carried key mcintosh-fowler-2019, whose actual paper ('Wise up: Clarifying the role of metacognition in the Dunning-Kruger effect', JEP:General 2019 — mis-titled and mis-attributed in the prime as 'Overconfidence in Young Children') concerns pointing/spatial-memory tasks, not financial trading, and does not support the trading claim.
- The intervention in this domain typically takes the form of enforcement mechanisms (position-size limits, leverage caps) rather than metacognitive training, because financial incentives often fail to calibrate confidence without structural constraint.
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