Ego utility, overconfidence, and task choice

TL;DR: Kőszegi et al. as discussed by the authors found that overconfidence is most likely induced by social concerns than by either of the other two factors, and that personality traits strongly affect relative ability judgments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show empirically that unemployed workers overestimate how quickly they will find work, but underestimate the return to their search efforts, and that with biased beliefs, contracts equalizing the marginal smoothing benefit and the moral hazard cost of insurance are suboptimal.

TL;DR: This paper showed that college applicants make obvious mistakes: they forgo the free opportunity to receive a tuition waiver worth thousands of dollars, and at least 10 percent of the applicants made such mistakes in 2013.

TL;DR: The authors showed that people underpredict and procrastinate because the ex-ante utility benefits of anticipating that a task will be easy to complete outweigh the average ex-post costs of poor planning.

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TL;DR: In this paper, Neuberg and Heine discuss the notion of belonging, acceptance, belonging, and belonging in the social world, and discuss the relationship between friendship, membership, status, power, and subordination.

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TL;DR: Research suggesting that certain illusions may be adaptive for mental health and well-being is reviewed, examining evidence that a set of interrelated positive illusions—namely, unrealistically positive self-evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism—can serve a wide variety of cognitive, affective, and social functions.