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internet-induced overconfidence: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

the tendency, after searching the internet, to overestimate how much knowledge one holds in one's own head.

In cognitive psychology, internet-induced overconfidence refers to the tendency, after searching the internet, to overestimate how much knowledge one holds in one's own head. This meaning comes from Fisher (2015) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.[1]

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Fisher, M., Goddu, M. K., & Keil, F. C. (2015). Searching for explanations: How the Internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(3), 674-687. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000070

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