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- However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth…
- We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
- People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.
- Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
- When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
- Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at…
- Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain…
- Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you…
- Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the…
- You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
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