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Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Harvard Business Review

Looking up, there in the bowsprit chair of a racing boat was the photographer, Paul Barnett, snapping photos from a long telescopic lens. 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). James Bond with a camera.

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