80 percent of humans are delusionally optimistic
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Most of us hold unrealistically optimistic views of the future, research shows, downplaying the likelihood that we will have bad experiences. Now a study inNature Neuroscience last October has found clues to the brain’s predilection for the positive, identifying regions that may fuel this “optimism bias” by preferentially responding to rosier information."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=unflagging-optimism
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