When Is it Right to Be Wrong?

Is It Right to Be Wrong About the Future?

Personal predictions are often optimistically biased. This simple observation has troubling implications for psychologists, economists, and decision theorists concerned with rationality and the accuracy of self-knowledge (Armor & Taylor, 2002; Krizan & Windschitl, 2007; Sweeny, Carroll, & Shepperd, 2006). However, normative conclusions about the impropriety of optimistic bias rest on an unteste...

Getting it right when things go wrong.

When doing the wrong thing is right

 3つの異なる練習方法でダンスの学習効果を検証した.  marking練習は full-out練習よりも学習効果がある.  markingと full-outと共にmental simulation練習よりも学習効果がある.

Prescribed optimism: is it right to be wrong about the future?

‘When Right could be so Wrong’. Laterality Errors in Healthcare

Distinguishing right from left can be challenging. During basic clinical training, we grappled with distinguishing superior from inferior, proximal from distal, medial from lateral but did you ever consider that some individuals may have had difficulty in telling right from left? We make right / left (RL) decisions on an everyday basis. Whether providing someone with travel directions or taking...