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December 13, 2018

Three questions with Peter Schwardmann

Why are people so often overconfident? Peter Schwardmann finds that people tend to deceive themselves to better deceive others. We also like to believe what makes us happier – which may explain some of the success of fake news. This video was made during his research visit at briq in February 2018.

Peter Schwardmann

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Peter Schwardmann is an assistant professor of economics at LMU Munich.

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Paper mentioned in the video

Ziva Kunda The case for motivated reasoning Psychological Bulletin, 108(3),1990, pages 480-498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.108.3.480
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