The bright side

Research in Iran: Look on the Bright Side

Regarding to Dr. Richard Stone’s report entitled “Iran, a shady market for papers flourishes” published in Science 15th September 2016.  There are several points in the articles that require particular attention. The report, although presents some truth, lacks depth and balance on a problem that is not unique to Iran. To begin to understand this, perhaps one needs to remi...

The bright side of boredom

Boredom proneness is commonly assessed and measured using self-report scales and questionnaires. The only full-scale measure of boredom that has been extensively used to assess boredom proneness is the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) (Farmer and Sundberg, 1986). BPS takes boredom proneness to be the tendency to experience boredom in a wide range of situations (Farmer and Sundberg, 1986). Although...

The Bright Side of Hardness

The bright side of the managed care "dark side" demon.

The Bright Side of Managerial Over-optimism

Human inference and estimation is subject to systematic biases. In particular, there is a long literature showing that overconfidence can lead to sub-optimal decisions. We depart from this research by showing empirically that a) over-optimism is a related but different bias, b) importantly, it can improve firm’s welfare, and more specifically, firms’ profitability and market value, and c) it ca...