Whatever Is Willed Will Be: A Temporal Asymmetry in Attributions to Will.

Why do people neglect or underweight their past failures when thinking about their prospects of future success? One reason may be that people think of the past and future as guided by different causal forces. In seven studies, the authors demonstrate that people hold asymmetric beliefs about the imp...

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Published in:	Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 1235 - 1247
Main Authors:	Helzer, Erik G., Gilovich, Thomas
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Oct2012
Subjects:	Belief & doubt Confidence Self-perception Attitude (Psychology) Psychology Will Brain function localization
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost