Feeling powerful leads to more optimistic and less accurate time predictions

Friday, March 26, 2010 - 17:21 in Psychology & Sociology

When people feel powerful they become more optimistic and less accurate in predicting the completion time of forthcoming tasks. New research examined for the first time the planning behavior of powerful people and found that power drastically reduced the accuracy of forecasts with error rates soaring up to 70%.

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