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Category Archives: illusion
How to be less confident
Search on Google for information on how to be less confident, and over 90% of the hits will actually be explaining ways to increase your confidence. This does have its perks. According to research from Washington University overconfident managers are more likely … Continue reading
Posted in confidence, Emotional intelligence, illusion, Leadership
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Multiplying like rabbits
Have you been a the position in which someone purported to be knowledgeable, or even an expert in an area gave you instructions that were impossible to follow once you got into the details… huge chunks of the process were … Continue reading
Posted in confidence, Group psychology, illusion, Leadership
Tagged over confidence, self-deception, status
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What does being agreeable have to do with over-confidence?
Did you ever wonder how researchers determine levels of confidence? Typically this research is perform using a population of college students volunteer to take part in psychological tests (sometimes a requirement for a psychology course). To measure confidence, students take … Continue reading
Posted in confidence, Gender differences, illusion, mental health, Uncategorized
Tagged extroversion, Five factor analysis, Motivation
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Emotional control
The more emotionally intelligent one is the more ability one has to perceive, understand, and manage emotions. Not just one’s own, but other people’s also. Those who possess this kind of intelligence are more able to manipulate others, but their influence … Continue reading
Easily deceived
Our eyes may deceive us. Two witnesses of the same event rarely, relate tell the same story. On a smaller scale, we often misread words. If two words have a similar spelling, we may read the one that we think … Continue reading
Posted in illusion, Manipulation, mental health
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The problem with positive pep talks
After centuries of philosophers, and in more recent times psychologists, coming up their own set of personality factors a symposium in the 1980s settled on what are called the “big five” which are commonly found in most summaries of personality traits. Four of the … Continue reading
You can dream it, but you will probably never do it.
How many times have you heard “if you can dream it, you can do it?” Well evidently if you can dream it you consider yourself happier, even if you never get around to doing it. And you are also similar … Continue reading
Posted in illusion, Optimism
Tagged believing illusion, high self esteem, Jonathon Brown, optimism, positive mental attitude, Shelly Taylor
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