More than 900 judges, recruited online, each watched one of the videos and rated their impression of the applicant’s competence. A week later, the students were brought back to the lab for a videotaped mock hiring interview. They also asked them to rate their social class and for their families’ income and their mothers’ and fathers’ education levels. Those from a higher social class thought that they did better than others however, when the researchers examined actual performance, it was not the case.įor the final investigation, the researchers recruited 236 undergraduate students, had each answer a 15-item trivia quiz and asked them to predict how they fared compared with others. In one, the researchers gave participants a trivia test. When the researchers compared the scores with their predictions, they found that people with more education, more income and a higher perceived social class had an exaggerated believe that they would perform better than others, compared with their lower-class counterparts.Īnother two investigations involving more than 1,400 online participants found a similar association between social class and overconfidence. After completing 20 trials, applicants were asked to indicate how they performed in comparison with others on a scale of 1 to 100. They then have to determine whether the second image matches the first. Part of that included a flashcard game, a cognitive test where participants are shown an image that goes away after they press a key and is replaced by a second image. To measure social class, the researchers obtained information about these applicants’ income, education level and perceived standing in society as part of the application process.Īpplicants were also required to complete a psychological assessment that would be used to assess their credit worthiness. The largest involved more than 150,000 small business owners in Mexico who were applying for loans. The study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ®.īelmi and his colleagues conducted a series of four investigations looking at the connection between social class and overconfidence and how that might affect others’ perceptions of a person’s competence. “Our research suggests that social class shapes the attitudes that people hold about their abilities and that, in turn, has important implications for how class hierarchies perpetuate from one generation to the next.” Those who are born in upper-class echelons are likely to remain in the upper class, and high-earning entrepreneurs disproportionately originate from highly educated, well-to-do families,” said Peter Belmi, PhD, of the University of Virginia and lead author of the study. Our online platform, Wiley Online Library () is one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.WASHINGTON - People who see themselves as being in a higher social class may tend to have an exaggerated belief that they are more adept than their equally capable lower-class counterparts, and that overconfidence can often be misinterpreted by others as greater competence in important situations, such as job interviews, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. With a growing open access offering, Wiley is committed to the widest possible dissemination of and access to the content we publish and supports all sustainable models of access. Wiley has partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies and publishes over 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols in STMS subjects. Wiley has published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Our core businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising professional books, subscription products, certification and training services and online applications and education content and services including integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research professional development and education.
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