Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking.
Across five experiments (N = 1,714), we test whether people engage in wishful thinking to alleviate anxiety about adverse future outcomes. Participants perform pattern recognition tasks in which some patterns may result in an electric shock or a monetary loss. Diagnostic of wishful thinking, partici...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 114; no. 4; pp. 926 - 961 |
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