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[...] Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that [...]

[...] Tali Sharot: The Optimism Bias Are we born to be optimistic, rather than realistic? Tali Sharot shares new research that suggests our brains are wired to look on the bright side — and [...]

[...] be better, much better, than the past or present. And most of us display this bias. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot wants to know why: What is it about our brain that makes us overestimate the positive? [...]

By Chris Simmons Many managers, supervisors, and leaders around the world are skilled in a classic “blunder cluster” known as The Four Me [...]

[...] By Chris Simmons Many managers, supervisors, and leaders around the world are skilled in a classic “blunder [...]

[...] Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own [...]

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shock [...]

[...] natural optimism actually shapes what we remember, and her interesting range of papers encompasses behavioral research (how likely we are to misremember major events) as well as medical findings & [...]

[...] abductions to dowsing rods — boils down to two of the brain’s most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. [...]

[...] By Chris Simmons First developed by Yale Professor Victor Vroom, Expectancy Theory holds that a person will act (or not act) based on the certainty of [...]