Illusions of control may cause insensitivity to feedback, impede learning and predispose toward greater objective risk taking ( since subjective risk will be reduced by illusion of control ).
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Dr . Langer's studies have always centered on the degree to which humans are in control of their actions, or rather, the degree to which they maintain the illusion of control.
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His assessment of the futility of voting, along with his notion that the public has an illusion of control over government, has caused controversy, and sometimes his explanations have been criticized.
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"What the death penalty does, " he said, " is provide the public with the illusion of control, and a mechanism to express its outrage over things it cannot control ."
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After some unwitting inspiration from Dr . Melfi about giving the elderly the " illusion of control ", Tony concedes leadership of the family to Junior, which gives Tony several strategic advantages.
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In a lengthy report, " United States of America : The Illusion of Control, " the London-based human rights group also argued the death penalty may inspire murders instead of discouraging them.
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Analysts have found that two critical actions can help prevent public panic : giving people fast and credible information, and giving people something to do, allowing them even an illusion of control.
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And McConaughey, finally relieved of the burden of being the Next Big Thing, settles down and gives a solid, forceful performance as a man whose illusions of control are about to be shattered.
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In the late 1970s, Alloy and her longtime collaborator Lyn Yvonne Abramson demonstrated that depressed individuals held a more accurate view than their non-depressed counterparts in a test which measured illusion of control.
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We review the literature on the illusion of control and the causal learning traditions, and then present an experiment as an illustration of how this approach can provide fruitful ideas to reduce pseudoscientific thinking.
