Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 10, 2014
Looking up, there in the bowsprit chair of a racing boat was the photographer, Paul Barnett, snapping photos from a long telescopic lens. James Bond with a camera. Social psychologists have been talking about these “positive illusions” for years in terms of mental health outcomes (see the work by Shelley Taylor and her colleagues).
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