The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China)

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Publication Type honors thesis
School or College David Eccles School of Business
Department Management
Faculty Mentor Elizabeth R. Tenney
Creator Yu, Stephone Lai Ming
Title The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China)
Date 2017
Description In 2015, researchers Tenney, Logg, and Moore published their research on the lay belief that optimism improves performance. The research was initially inspired by another study introducing the idea of prescribed optimism (Armor et al., 2008). Their research was spurred by an observation that has been troubling many psychologists, economists, and decision theorists who were concerned about rationality and the accuracy of self-knowledge: people's predictions were often optimistically biased, and people preferred them to be optimistically biased, rather than accurate.
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Publisher University of Utah
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Stephanie Lai Ming Yu
Format Medium application/pdf
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