Illusion of Control
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Investing in stocks is beyond picking well performing stocks; it is more on how to decide which asset to acquire, hold or sell and when to do so. Investors tends not to be logical when making decisions; they respond to numerous... more
Scholars use the theoretical lens of bias to research various behavioral phenomena in entrepreneurship. We assess this body of research, focusing on definitional issues and relationships. Furthermore, we discuss how the study of bias in... more
Investing in stocks is beyond picking well performing stocks; it is more on how to decide which asset to acquire, hold or sell and when to do so. Investors tends not to be logical when making decisions; they respond to numerous... more
THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO ESTABLISH HOW AND WHEN THE SEED SPARK OF ALL HUMAN’S CONSCIOUSNESS BEGAN. DRILLING DOWN INTO EDGAR CAYCE’S STATEMENT THAT THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF ALL HUMANS STARTED AT THE SAME TIME,
There has been a great deal of interest in the concept of luck in the recent psychological and philosophical literature. In philosophy, this interest has tended to focus not upon luck simpliciter but rather upon the role that luck plays... more
Anger has been shown to be a motivating factor in aggression and it is widely accepted that driving anger may lead to aggressive driving. However, the link between anger and aggressive driving is likely to be mediated by drivers’... more
It is well known that certain variables can bias judgements about the perceived contingency between an action and an outcome, making them depart from the normative predictions. For instance, previous studies have proven that the activity... more
Depressive realism consists of the lower personal control over uncontrollable events perceived by depressed as compared to nondepressed individuals. In this article, we propose that the realism of depressed individuals is caused not by an... more
Cognitive grounds of culture: basic categories. What is meant by 'projective realities'. Milieu. Projective realities as limited and situational ones. Illusion of control and identity. Inference systems and ontological categories.... more
The illusion of control can be defined as the erroneous belief that one’s actions cause a specific outcome, whereas sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling of authorship over one’s actions. In the present study we investigated... more
When people try to obtain a desired event and this outcome occurs independently of their behavior, they often think that they are controlling its occurrence. This is known as the illusion of control, and it is the basis for most... more
Several classic studies have concluded that the accuracy of identifying uncontrollable situations depends heavily on depressive mood. Nondepressed participants tend to exhibit an optimistic illusion of control, whereas depressed... more
Two experiments examined the relationships between the knowledge that another person has won in a gamble, the illusion of control and risk taking. Participants played a computer-simulated French roulette game individually. Before playing,... more
Researchers have warned that causal illusions are at the root of many superstitious beliefs and fuel many people's faith in pseudoscience, thus generating significant suffering in modern society. Therefore, it is critical that we... more
Misperceptions of causality are at the heart of superstitious thinking and pseudoscience. The main goal of the present work is to show how our knowledge about the mechanisms involved in causal induction can be used to hinder the... more
The tempting fate effect is that the probability of a fateful outcome is deemed higher following an action that ``tempts'' the outcome than in the absence of such an action. In this paper we evaluate the hypothesis that the effect... more
In many countries, betting in sports is highly regulated. In Germany, however, there are current debates whether regulation should be loosened. A crucial part of the argument is that sport bets could be qualified as ‘games of skill’ that... more