Excellent! This has always been my guess about depressive realism, but I never did the careful lit review to see if it lined up.
A bit of overconfidence is, curiously, rational. That’s if you’re also burdened with some unfortunate cognitive limitations that prevent your brain from perfectly telling times when you should err on the side of optimism from times you shouldn’t.
And here we all are trying to think with monkey brains.
Excellent! This has always been my guess about depressive realism, but I never did the careful lit review to see if it lined up.
A bit of overconfidence is, curiously, rational. That’s if you’re also burdened with some unfortunate cognitive limitations that prevent your brain from perfectly telling times when you should err on the side of optimism from times you shouldn’t.
And here we all are trying to think with monkey brains.