Accounting Standards,”
29. Drew Westen et al., “Neural Bases of Motivated Reasoning: An fMRI Study of Emotional Constraints on Partisan Political Judgment in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election,”
30. Ibid.
31. Peter H. Ditto and David F. Lopez, “Motivated Skepticism: Use of Differential Decision Criteria for Preferred and Nonpreferred Conclusions,”
32. Naomi Oreskes, “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,”
33. Charles G. Lord et al., “Biased Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently Considered Evidence,”
34. Robert P. Vallone et al., “The Hostile Media Phenomenon: Biased Perception and Perceptions of Media Bias in Coverage of the Beirut Massacre,”
35. Daniel L. Wann and Thomas J. Dolan, “Attributions of Highly Identified Sports Spectators,”
36. Stephen E. Clapham and Charles R. Schwenk, “Self-Serving Attributions, Managerial Cognition, and Company Performance,”
37. Ian R. Newby-Clark et al., “People Focus on Optimistic Scenarios and Disregard Pessimistic Scenarios While Predicting Task Completion Times,”
38. David Dunning, “Strangers to Ourselves?”
39. R. Buehler et al., “Inside the Planning Fallacy: The Causes and Consequences of Optimistic Time Predictions,” in
40. Eric Luis Uhlmann and Geoffrey L. Cohen, “Constructed Criteria,”
41. Regarding all the experiments in this series, see Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein, “Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases,”
42. Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathan D. Brown, “Illusion and Well-Being: A Social Psychological Perspective on Mental Health,”
43. David Dunning et al., “Self-Serving Prototypes of Social Categories,”
44. Harry P. Bahrick et al., “Accuracy and Distortion in Memory for High School Grades,”
45. Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement address, 2005.
46. Stanley Meisler, “The Surreal World of Salvador Dali,”
47. Taylor and Brown, “Illusion and Well-Being”; Alice M. Isen et al., “Positive Affect Facilitates Creative Problem Solving,”
48. Taylor and Brown, “Illusion and Well-Being,” and Dunning, “Strangers to Ourselves?”
49. Taylor and Brown, “Illusion and Well-Being.”
Index
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aboriginals
“above-average” effect
academic performance, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
acetaminophen
acting, 5.1, 7.1
Adams, Marilyn J., 3.1,
Adolphs, Ralph
adrenaline
advertising, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
affiliations, group
affiliative behavior, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1
affluence
African Americans, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
Agassiz, Louis
Alameda County, Calif.
Allport, Gordon, 7.1, 8.1
Amazon River
ambiguity, 10.1, 10.2
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Geophysical Union
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Meteorological Society
amnesia
amygdala, 4.1, 9.1
anger, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
angina pectoris
animal characteristics, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1,
animals, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1,
anterior cingulate cortex
anthropology, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
anthropomorphization
anti-Semitism, 7.1, 7.2
Antony, Mark