What is Political Overconfidence? Interrogating the Mutability, Domain Specificity, and Social Context Dependence of Self-Confidence in Political Knowledge

• In Event: Measurement Issues and Self-Reports in Surveys

Brief Overview

In this study I examine how party identification conditions political overconfidence, or the unwarranted belief that one knows a great deal about politics while actually knowing little.

Author

• Ian G. Anson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County