Faulty brain is source of optimism!
Even after a soccer team loses 10 consecutive matches, a fan might persist in the belief that his team can reverse its bad luck. A new research says a 'faulty' function of the brain's frontal lobe is the reason for such optimism.
Why is human optimism so pervasive when reality
continuously challenges these biased beliefs, asks Tali Sharot of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), who conducted the study with others.