"It is a puzzle why humans tend toward unrealistic optimism, as it can lead to excessively risky behavior and a failure to take precautionary action. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample (N=36, 312) our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition—as measured by a broad range of cognitive skills, including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning."
@N0ZB@psychology I think the study was related to unrealistic #optimism and miscalibrating #financial expectations. I do not know how much of the findings can be extroplated to the field of #politics either in the #UK or the #US.