Chris Dawson Archives - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Is being overly optimistic linked to lower cognitive skills?

Being overly optimistic may be linked to poor decision-making

Looking on the (B)right side of life: cognitive ability and miscalibrated financial expectations

Predicting the end of the pandemic: optimism vs pessimism. How does optimism and pessimism influence your well-being?

Neither an optimist nor a pessimist be: mistaken expectations lower well-being

The upside of pessimism − biased beliefs and the paradox of the contented female worker

Unsureness among women about their earning power fuels gender pay gap: study

Female pessimism about pay could sustain the gender pay gap

Efforts to stop women being paid less thwarted – why we HAVE to have new laws

Women’s pessimism ‘is behind gender pay gap’, research reveals