The Illusion of Control and Information Overload within a Bayesian Updating Framework

Autor

  • Elżbieta Kubińska Cracow University of Economics, Department of Financial Markets
  • Marcin Czupryna Cracow University of Economics, Department of Financial Markets
  • Łukasz Markiewicz Kozminski University, Warsaw, Center of Economic Psychology and Decision Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15678/PJOEP.2017.12.01

Słowa kluczowe:

overconfidence, illusion of control, information overload, Bayesian updating

Abstrakt

In this paper, the hypothesis that information overload causes the illusion of control is verified with Bayesian updating. Bayesian updating is considered the rationality model of individuals’ perception of their impact on the process of generating results. Here, the Bayesian model of processing information, where different priors are applied, is validated. Information overload has been operationalised by introducing uncertainty about the function and parameter values of generating results.

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2018-09-26

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