strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … why risk taking is related to optimism. …

In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we … show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the positive or negative outcomes of risky … behavior. This suggests that dispositional optimism may affect risk taking mainly by shifting attention to specific outcomes …

link locus of control to decision- making: (i) preference for agency; (ii) optimism and (iii) confidence regarding the … agency, an effect that is driven by women. We find no evidence that locus of control influences optimism and confidence about …

optimism/pessimism over probability distributions and for loss averse/gain loving stochastic reference dependence. I give …

This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and … pessimism. In stage 1, we induce optimism or pessimism onto subjects by randomly assigning a high or low piece rate for …