Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...

Whether judgment and decision making biases improve with experience remains an important and contentious question. Positive illusions, for example, have been documented extensively, but virtually always in single-shot settings. To what extent do these illusions persist over time? And what...

Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...

Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...

How are expectations for the future affected by economic crisis? This is a question of interest to both economists and psychologists, especially as we increasingly consider the interplay between the two disciplines. Using a longitudinal design, we evaluate the impact of the financial crisis of...