Abstract

Research on illusory control has found widespread tendencies to overestimate personal control over obtaining desired outcomes and avoiding negative ones. This chapter covers the major paradigms for researching illusory control, as well as the factors that prompt or suppress these illusions, and the positive and negative consequences of overestimating one’s control in diverse areas such as emotional response, persistence, financial investment, safe driving, gambling, and health protection. In addition, insights from neuroimaging studies on illusory control, and two major theories of the source of illusory control, the “confusion of skills and chance” and the control heuristic are evaluated.

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