The hobgoblin of consistency: algorithmic judgment strategies underlie inflated self-assessments of performance.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

• Publication date

  2013-04-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0032416PMID 23627747
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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