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Title: Look ma(rket), No Hands! Optimism Bias and Illusion of Control in Finance Professionals
Authors: Marcatto, Francesco
Colangelo, Giovanni
Ferrante, Donatella
Keywords: Optimism biasunrealistic comparative optimismfinancial riskinvestment riskperceived controlillusion of control
Issue Date: 2014
Publisher: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source: Francesco Marcatto, Giovanni Colangelo, Donatella Ferrante, "Look ma(rket), No Hands! Optimism Bias and Illusion of Control in Finance" in: Paolo Bernardis, Carlo Fantoni, Walter Gerbino (eds.) "TSPC2014. Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, November 27-28", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2014, pp. 118-120.
Abstract: 
The optimism bias is the tendency to judge one’s own risk as
less than the risk of others. In the present study we found that
also finance professionals (N = 60) displayed an optimism
bias when forecasting the return of an investment made by
themselves or by a colleague of the same expertise. Using a
multidimensional approach to the assessment of risk
perception, we found that participants’ forecasts were biased
not because they judged negative consequences as less likely
for themselves, but because they were overconfident in their
ability to avoid and control them.
Type: Book Chapter
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10077/10532
eISBN: 978-88-8303-610-1
Appears in Collections:TSPC2014: Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, November 27th-28th 2014

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