Adults showed brain activity: Leroux, G., et al. (2009). “Adult brains don’t fully overcome biases that lead to incorrect performance during cognitive development: An fMRI study in young adults completing a Piaget-like task,” Developmental Science 12, 326–38.
It was surprising, then: Poirel, N., Borst, G., Simon, G., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., and Houdé, O. (2012). “Number conservation is related to children’s prefrontal inhibitory control: An fMRI study of Piagetian task” PLOS ONE 7, 1–7.
Researchers from Columbia Business School: Meier, S., and Sprenger, C. (2010). “Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2, 193–210.
Professors at the business schools: Herschfield, H., and Roese, N. (2014). “Dual payoff scenario warnings on credit card statements elicit suboptimal payoff decisions,” available at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2460986.
Diwas KC is a statistics guru: KC, D. S. (2013). “Does multitasking improve performance? Evidence from the emergency department,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 16, 167–327.
The work of a team: Naito, E., and Hirose, S. (2014). “Efficient foot motor control by Neymar’s brain,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, 1–7.
Per week: BBC Sport (August 29, 2017). “Footballers’ wages: How long would it take you to earn a star player’s salary?” www.bbc.com/sport/41037621.
For example, when moving their fingers: Jäncke, L., Shah, N. J., and Peters, M. (2000). “Cortical activations in primary and secondary motor areas for complex bimanual movements in professional pianists,” Cognitive Brain Research 10, 177–83.
Professional Formula One drivers: Bernardi, G., et al. (2013). “How skill expertise shapes the brain functional architecture: An fMRI study of visuo-spatial and motor processing in professional racing-car and naïve drivers,” PLOS ONE 8, 1–11.
Expert air-pistol athletes: Del Percio, C., et al. (2009). “Visuo-attentional and sensorimotor alpha rhythms are related to visuo-motor performance in athletes,” Human Brain Mapping 30, 3527–40.
Members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association: Milton, J., Solodkin, A., Hluštik, P., and Small, S. L. (2007). “The mind of expert motor performance is cool and focused,” NeuroImage 35, 804–13.
And when envisioning: Petrini, K., et al. (2011). “Action expertise reduces brain activity for audiovisual matching actions: An fMRI study with expert drummers,” NeuroImage 56, 1480–92.
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Researchers at Ghent University: Feys, M., and Anseel, F. (2015). “When idols look into the future: Fair treatment modulates the affective forecasting error in talent show candidates,” British Journal of Social Psychology 54, 19–36.
You can find the same discrepancy: Kopp, L., Atance, C. M., and Pearce, S. (2017). “ ‘Things aren’t so bad!’: Preschoolers overpredict the emotional intensity of negative outcomes,” British Journal of Developmental Psychology 35, 623–27.
I conducted a survey: Balcetis, E., and Dunning, D. (2007). “A mile in moccasins: How situational experience diminishes dispositionism in social inference,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 34, 102–14.
In just the same way: Gilbert, D. (2007). Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Vintage Books.