Ego utility, overconfidence, and task choice

TL;DR: A two-wave survey experiment in Switzerland examines how self-image concerns influence voting behavior, finding that a message emphasizing "good-hearted people" support animal welfare initiatives increases voters' agreement with pro-initiative arguments and reported voting in favor.

TL;DR: This paper found that those with high cognitive ability tend to look more on the right side of life than those with low cognitive ability, and that the negative consequences of unrealistic optimism may be a side product of the true driver, lower cognitive ability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a simple principal-agent model in which the principal's interest in dispersing risk motivates him to hire overconfident agents, and they show that induced overconfidence satisfies experimental stylized facts (such as, hard-easy effect, false certainty effect and underuse of base rates).

TL;DR: In this paper, self-esteem concerns are incorporated into an otherwise ordinary principal-agent framework and examined its impact on the optimal incentive scheme and the agent's behavior, especially focusing on a form of intrapersonal strategy known as self-handicapping.

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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.