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Task Difficulty Effects

Task Difficulty Effects is a cognitive phenomenon in confidence calibration research that refers to the systematic tendency for individuals to miscalibrate their confidence ratings as a function of the objective difficulty level of a task, typically exhibiting overconfidence on difficult tasks and underconfidence on easy ones.

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The trouble with overconfidence.

Don A. Moore, Paul J. Healy · Psychological Review · 2008 · 2.3K citations

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Developmentally Sensitive Measures of Executive Function in Preschool Children

Stephanie M. Carlson · Developmental Neuropsychology · 2005 · 1.6K citations

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In the Mind of the Actor: The Structure of Adolescents' Achievement Task Values and Expectancy-Related Beliefs

Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Allan Wigfield · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 1995 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Modeling Response Times for Two-Choice Decisions

Roger Ratcliff, Jeffrey N. Rouder · Psychological Science · 1998 · 1.6K citations

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Task complexity, task difficulty, and task production: exploring interactions in a componential framework

Peter Robinson · Applied Linguistics · 2001 · 1.2K citations

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  1. GH
    Guido H. E. Gendolla

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    17 publications · 1K citations

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  2. MM
    Michael M. Richter

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    10 publications · 743 citations

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  3. RA
    Rex A. Wright

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

    9 publications · 877 citations

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  4. KU
    Kim Uittenhove

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    6 publications · 213 citations

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  5. JG
    Jacek Gwizdka

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    5 publications · 259 citations

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  1. University of Geneva

    Geneva, Switzerland

    18 h-index

    46 publications

    2.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    17 h-index

    51 publications

    2.8K citations

  3. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    13 h-index

    28 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    13 h-index

    22 publications

    1K citations

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    13 h-index

    34 publications

    5K citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    12 h-index

    26 publications

    965 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    34 publications · 4.6K citations

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  2. Psychophysiology

    27 publications · 2.4K citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Psychology

    16 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. NeuroImage

    12 publications · 856 citations

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