The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China)

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.