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Overclaiming
A classic paradigm in psychology for measuring the accuracy of self-rated knowledge. Fictitious names are mixed into a set of real items, allowing researchers to detect whether respondents' self-assessments of knowledge are systematically inflated.
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Oct 14
Overclaiming is a classic paradigm in psychology for measuring the accuracy of self-assessed knowledge, used by Delroy Paulhus and others in the 1990s to study self-deception and social desirability bias.
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