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planning fallacy: a standalone construct

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planningfallacy1 CONSTRUCTPlanning fallacyBUEHLER · SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Social psychology

the tendency to underestimate how long one's own tasks will take, despite knowing past tasks ran over.

In social psychology, planning fallacy refers to the tendency to underestimate how long one's own tasks will take, despite knowing past tasks ran over. This meaning comes from Buehler (1994) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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  1. Buehler, R., Griffin, D., & Ross, M. (1994). Exploring the "planning fallacy": Why people underestimate their task completion times. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(3), 366-381. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.67.3.366

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