Research on the Planning Fallacy Indicates That We Tend to ____

question 58

Multiple Choice

Research on the planning fallacy indicates that we tend to ____ when making predictions about ourselves and we tend to ____ when making predictions about other people.

• A)be overly optimistic; be overly optimistic also
• B)be overly optimistic; be realistic
• C)be overly optimistic; be overly pessimistic
• D)be realistic; be overly pessimistic

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Definitions:

Environmental Sociologists

Specialists who study the interactions between societies and their environments, including the social factors that cause environmental problems and those affected by them.

Environmental Issues

Problems related to the environment such as pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss that affect natural ecosystems and human societies.

Dominant Social Paradigm

The capitalist view supported by an ideology that legitimates the domination of nature for the material benefit of humans.

Capitalism

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.