The Importance of Motivation in Advice Taking

People are overly optimistic about the probability of positive things happening and it's part of the larger phenomenon of people think them better than they are. In a second study we wondered if they were passed down this kind of expectations to other people that they interact with so we asked them to rate the advisors on the scale of one to five. People still rated their advisors essentially above average if you will suggesting that they think that there's some information in this advisor's advice. Sometimes experts do have information but that is not my message or rather be able to discern it in an objective way, he says.