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We are wired to look on the bright side

We have a bias towards optimism – we actively look for things that help us believe what we want to believe. We are more likely to do that with the things in life that really matter to us. Isabel Hardman looks at our extraordinary capacity to deceive ourselves.

First broadcast on The Age of Denial, 13 March 2019.

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