The illusion of control is a mental bias leading people to overestimate ... promoting both physical health and a sense of well-being. A classic example of the value of having a sense of control ...

No matter what bias you ... a form of the illusion of control bias — you invest smaller amounts regularly, like clockwork, regardless of market conditions. For example, investing $1,000 ...

for example a bad day at work, she would triumphantly say, well see, my horoscope did warn me.” Even when these statements lack scientific rigor, they create an illusion of predictability.

Here the hypothesis was that embodiment of White people in dark-skinned virtual body would lead to a reduction in negative implicit racial bias toward Black people, as described earlier except that we ...

Using the “McGurk illusion,” in Experiment 1 we found that audio-visual ... reported a word that did not correspond to any of the other categories. An example of a “McGurk-fused” response is if the ...