The irrational optimism bias: ‘On any given Sunday’
I was not able to include a discussion of the “optimism bias” in On Second Thought, but I will in the next edition. It is one of the post powerful–and consequential–heuristics at work in the human mind, as this new research demonstrates.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/were-only-human/irrational-optimism-on-any-given-sunday.html