A series of experiments investigated why people value optimism and whether they are right to do so. In Experiments 1A and 1B, participants prescribed more optimism for someone implementing decisions than for someone deliberating, indicating that people prescribe optimism selectively, when it can affect performance. Furthermore, participants believed optimism improved outcomes when a person's actions had considerable, rather than little, influence over the outcome (Experiment 2). Experiments 3 and 4 tested the accuracy of this belief; optimism improved persistence, but it did not improve performance as much as participants expected. Experiments 5A and 5B found that participants overestimated the relationship between optimism and performance ...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological ...
A series of experiments investigated why people value optimism and whether they are right to do so. ...
honors thesisDavid Eccles School of BusinessManagementElizabeth R. TenneyIn 2015, researchers Tenney...
Two experiments examined the effects of dispositional optimism and attributions on feelings of succe...
Optimism is an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which people hold generali...
Numerous studies have linked an optimistic disposition with highly beneficial outcomes to physical ...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates to moti...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
<p>Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates to m...
Personal predictions are often optimistically biased. This simple observation has troubling implicat...
none2siWishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outco...
Optimism has a multitude of benefits to individuals in the domains of physical health (Räikkönen & C...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological ...
A series of experiments investigated why people value optimism and whether they are right to do so. ...
honors thesisDavid Eccles School of BusinessManagementElizabeth R. TenneyIn 2015, researchers Tenney...
Two experiments examined the effects of dispositional optimism and attributions on feelings of succe...
Optimism is an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which people hold generali...
Numerous studies have linked an optimistic disposition with highly beneficial outcomes to physical ...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates to moti...
Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the ten...
<p>Optimism is a cognitive construct (expectancies regarding future outcomes) that also relates to m...
Personal predictions are often optimistically biased. This simple observation has troubling implicat...
none2siWishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outco...
Optimism has a multitude of benefits to individuals in the domains of physical health (Räikkönen & C...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Wishful thinking, dened as the tendency to over-estimate the probability of high-payoff outcomes, is...
Thesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological ...