Confidence

Trust in a person, thing, or in one’s own abilities – particularly belief in another person’s trustworthiness;

assuredness, reliance in or upon something, especially one’s own judgements and decisions – in such contexts as choice behaviour, problem-solving, or signal detection and whether or to what extent an individual has confidence that a signal has been detected, the proper decision made, or the correct solution found, etc., with estimates sought from subjects of their degree of confidence about such responses, actions, or beliefs.

(see also: unwarranted confidence, Illusion of validity, Calibration of judgement, Predictive value, Redundancy, and Confidence, Post hoc reasoning)

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