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Illusion of Control

"The illusion of control is the tendency for human beings to believe they can control or at least influence outcomes which they clearly cannot."
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1. LANGER, E.J. and J. ROTH, 1974. The illusion of control. [Cited by 349]
2. SANDERSON, W.C., R.M. RAPEE and D.H. BARLOW, 1989. The influence of an illusion of control on panic attacks induced via inhalation of 5.5% carbon …. Archives of General Psychiatry. [Cited by 61]
3. LANGER, E.J. and J. ROTH, 1975. Heads I win, tails it's chance: The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes …. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Cited by 67]
4. ALLOY, L.B. and C.M. CLEMENTS, 1992. Illusion of control: Invulnerability to negative affect and depressive symptoms after laboratory and …. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. [Cited by 34]
5. ALLOY, L.B. and L.Y. ABRAMSON, 1982. Learned helplessness, depression, and the illusion of control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Cited by 33]

• ALLOY, L.B. and C.M. CLEMENTS, 1992. Illusion of control: invulnerability to negative affect and depressive symptoms after laboratory and …. J Abnorm Psychol. [Cited by 57] (3.74/year)
• ALLOY, L.B. and L.Y. ABRAMSON, 1982. Learned helplessness, depression, and the illusion of control.. J Pers Soc Psychol. [Cited by 60] (2.38/year)
• ALLOY, L.B., L.Y. ABRAMSON and D. VISCUSI, pan>. Induced mood and the illusion of control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1981<. [Cited by 62] (?/year)
• AMIT, R. and P.J.H. SCHOEMAKER, 1993. Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent. Strategic Management Journal. [Cited by 1730] (121.53/year)
• BARBER, B.M. and T. ODEAN, 2001. The Internet and the Investor. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. [Cited by 67] (10.75/year)
• BARNES, J.H., 1984. Cognitive Biases and Their Impact on Strategic Planning. Strategic Management Journal. [Cited by 96] (4.13/year)
• BINER, P.M., et al., pan>. Need and the illusion of control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995<. [Cited by 10] (?/year)
• BINER, P.M., et al., 1995. Need State and the Illusion of Control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Cited by 5] (0.41/year)
• BOUTS, P. and E. VAN, 1992. … Familiar or Unfamiliar Cards: Stimulus Familiarity, Chance Orientation, and the Illusion of Control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Cited by 10] (0.66/year)
• BROWN, S., 2001. The Illusion of Control: Forced and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Brookings Institution; University Presses Marketing. [Cited by 7] (1.12/year)
• BUDESCU, D.V. and M. BRUDERMAN, 1995. The relationship between the illusion of control and the desirability bias. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. [Cited by 29] (2.37/year)
• BURGER, J.M., 1986. Desire for control and the illusion of control: the effects of familiarity and sequence of outcomes. Journal of research in personality(Print). [Cited by 16] (0.75/year)
• BURGER, J.M. and D.A. SCHNERRING, 1982. The effects of desire for control and extrinsic rewards on the illusion of control and gambling. Motivation and Emotion. [Cited by 11] (0.44/year)
• BURGER, J.M. and H.M. COOPER, 1979. The desirability of control. Motivation and Emotion. [Cited by 133] (4.71/year)
• COHAN, J.A., 2002. " I Didn't Know" and" I Was Only Doing My Job": Has Corporate Governance Careened Out of Control? A …. Journal of Business Ethics. [Cited by 33] (6.30/year)
• COLVIN, C.R. and J. BLOCK, 1994. Do positive illusions foster mental health? An examination of the Taylor and Brown formulation. Psychological Bulletin. [Cited by 163] (12.32/year)
• CORLESS, T. and M. DICKERSON, 1989. Gamblers'self-perceptions of the determinants of impaired control. British Journal of Addiction. [Cited by 33] (1.81/year)
• COVENTRY, K.R. and A.C. NORMAN, 1998. Arousal, erroneous verbalizations and the illusion of control during a computer-generated gambling …. British journal of psychology(1953). [Cited by 14] (1.52/year)
• DAVIS, F.D. and J.E. KOTTEMANN, 1994. User perceptions of decision support effectiveness: Two production planning experiments. Decision Sciences. [Cited by 41] (3.10/year)
• DE, D. and C. SOUTHEY, 1996. The Borrower's Curse: Optimism, Finance and Entrepreneurship. The Economic Journal. [Cited by 118] (10.50/year)
• DEREVENSKY, J.L., R. GUPTA and G. DELLA, 1996. A developmental perspective of gambling behavior in children and adolescents. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 61] (5.43/year)
• DICKERSON, M., 1993. Internal and external determinants of persistent gambling: Problems in generalising from one form of …. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 61] (4.29/year)
• DICKERSON, M. and S. ADCOCK, 1987. Mood, arousal and cognitions in persistent gambling: Preliminary investigation of a theoretical …. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 33] (1.63/year)
• DIXON, M.R., 2000. Manipulating the illusion of control: Variations in gambling as a function o.... The Psychological Record. [Cited by 8] (1.11/year)
• DONOVAN, W.L., L.A. LEAVITT and R.O. WALSH, 1990. Maternal Self-Efficacy: Illusory Control and Its Effect on Susceptibility to Learned Helplessness. Child Development. [Cited by 36] (2.09/year)
• DRUMMOND, H., 1996. The politics of risk: trials and tribulations of the taurus project. JIT. Journal of information technology(Print). [Cited by 27] (2.40/year)
• DUHAIME, I.M. and C.R. SCHWENK, 1985. Conjectures on Cognitive Simplification in Acquisition and Divestment Decision Making. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 121] (5.44/year)
• DUNN, D.S. and T.D. WILSON, pan>. When the stakes are high: A limit to the illusion of control effect. Social Cognition, 1990<. [Cited by 11] (?/year)
• DURAND, R., 2003. … forecasting ability: the roles of organizational illusion of control and organizational attention. Strategic Management Journal. [Cited by 13] (3.07/year)
• DYKSTRA, S.P. and S.J. DOLLINGER, pan>. Model competence, depression, and the illusion of control. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1990<. [Cited by 5] (?/year)
• EISENHARDT, K.M., 1985. Control: Organizational and Economic Approaches. Management Science. [Cited by 363] (16.33/year)
• FRANK, M.L. and C. SMITH, 1989. Illusion of control and gambling in children. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 10] (0.55/year)
• FRIEDLAND, N., G. KEINAN and Y. REGEV, 1992. Controlling the uncontrollable: effects of stress on illusory perceptions of controllability.. J Pers Soc Psychol. [Cited by 30] (1.97/year)
• GAZZANIGA, M.S., 1995. [BOOK] The cognitive neurosciences. wjh.harvard.edu. [Cited by 331] (27.05/year)
• GILMAN, S.L., 1985. [BOOK] Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. books.google.com. [Cited by 209] (9.40/year)
• GOLIN, S., et al., 1979. The illusion of control among depressed patients.. J Abnorm Psychol. [Cited by 16] (0.57/year)
• GOLIN, S., F. TERRELL and B. JOHNSON, 1977. Depression and the illusion of control.. J Abnorm Psychol. [Cited by 20] (0.66/year)
• GOLLWITZER, P.M. and R.F. KINNEY, 1989. Effects of deliberative and implemental mind-sets on illusion of control. Journal of personality and social psychology. [Cited by 67] (3.67/year)
• GREENBERGER, D.B. and S. STRASSER, 1986. Development and Application of a Model of Personal Control in Organizations. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 74] (3.48/year)
• GRIFFITHS, M., 1993. Fruit machine gambling: The importance of structural characteristics. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 61] (4.29/year)
• GRIFFITHS, M.D., 1990. The cognitive psychology of gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 58] (3.37/year)
• HAMMOND, T.B. and M.S. HORSWILL, 2001. The influence of desire for control on drivers' risk-taking behaviour. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and …. [Cited by 8] (1.28/year)
• HARRIS, P. and W. MIDDLETON, 1994. The illusion of control and optimism about health: on being less at risk but no more in control than …. Br J Soc Psychol. [Cited by 42] (3.17/year)
• HAYASHI, N., et al., 1999. Reciprocity, Trust, and the Sense of Control: A Cross-Societal Study. Rationality and Society. [Cited by 82] (9.96/year)
• HAYASHI, N., et al., pan>. Reciprocity, trust and the illusion of control: a cross-societal study. Rationality and Society, 1999<. [Cited by 8] (?/year)
• HEADS, I., pan>. Win, Tails It's Chance: The Illusion of Control as a Function of the Sequence of Outcomes in a …. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1975<. [Cited by 4] (?/year)
• HELFT, P.R., M. SIEGLER and J. LANTOS, pan>. The Rise and Fall of the Futility Movement - all 3 versions ». New England Journal of Medicine, 2000<. [Cited by 84] (?/year)
• HOCH, S.J. and Y.W. HA, 1986. Consumer Learning: Advertising and the Ambiguity of Product Experience. The Journal of Consumer Research. [Cited by 226] (10.64/year)
• HONG, Y.Y. and C.Y. CHIU, 1988. Sex, locus of control, and illusion of control in Hong Kong as correlates of gambling involvement.. J Soc Psychol. [Cited by 26] (1.35/year)
• HORSWILL, M.S. and F.P. MCKENNA, 1999. The effect of perceived control on risk taking. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. [Cited by 23] (2.79/year)
• JEMISON, D.B. and S.B. SITKIN, 1986. Corporate Acquisitions: A Process Perspective. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 287] (13.52/year)
• JI, L.J., K. PENG and R.E. NISBETT, 2000. Culture, control, and perception of relationships in the environment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Cited by 79] (10.92/year)
• KAHAI, S.S. and S. SOLIERI, 1998. Active involvement, familiarity, framing, and the illusion of control during decision support system …. Decision Support Systems. [Cited by 8] (0.87/year)
• KAHNEMAN, D. and M.W. RIEPE, 1998. Aspects of investor psychology. Journal of Portfolio Management. [Cited by 134] (14.51/year)
• KEH, H.T., M.D. FOO and B.C. LIM, 2002. Opportunity Evaluation under Risky Conditions: The Cognitive Processes of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. [Cited by 37] (7.07/year)
• KOEHLER, J.J., 1994. Shattering the illusion of control: Multi-shot versus single-shot gambles. [Cited by 27] (2.04/year)
• KOLLER, M., 1988. Risk as a determinant of trust. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. [Cited by 42] (2.18/year)
• KOTTEMANN, J.E., F.D. DAVIS and W.E. REMUS, 1994. Computer-assisted decision making: performance, beliefs, and the illusion of control. Organizational behavior and human decision processes(Print). [Cited by 17] (1.28/year)
• LACHMAN, M.E. and S.L. WEAVER, 1998. The Sense of Control as a Moderator of Social Class Differences in Health and Well-Being. Journal of Fsrsonaiity and Social Psychology. [Cited by 127] (13.75/year)
• LADOUCEUR, R., 1984. Evaluation of the" Illusion of Control": Type of Feedback, Outcome Sequence, and Number of Trials …. Journal of Psychology. [Cited by 5] (0.22/year)
• LADOUCEUR, R., 1984. Illusion of Control: Effects of Participation and Involvement. Journal of Psychology. [Cited by 4] (0.17/year)
• LADOUCEUR, R., et al., 2001. Cognitive treatment of pathological gambling. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. [Cited by 97] (15.56/year)
• LANGER, E.J., 1974. The illusion of control. [Cited by 795] (23.92/year)
• LERNER, J.S., 2000. Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice. Cognition & Emotion. [Cited by 228] (31.51/year)
• LEVINTHAL, D.A. and J.G. MARCH, 1993. The Myopia of Learning. Strategic Management Journal. [Cited by 921] (64.70/year)
• LYNG, S., 1990. Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking. The American Journal of Sociology. [Cited by 127] (7.37/year)
• MALLINGER, A.E., 1984. The Obsessive's Myth of Control. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. [Cited by 15] (0.65/year)
• MARTIN, D.J., L.Y. ABRAMSON and L.B. ALLOY, 1984. Illusion of control for self and others in depressed and nondepressed college students.. J Pers Soc Psychol. [Cited by 32] (1.38/year)
• MATUTE, H., pan>. Illusion of control. Detecting response-outcome independence in analytic but not in naturalistic …. Psychological Science, 1996<. [Cited by 12] (?/year)
• MCKENNA, F.P., 1993. It won't happen to me: unrealistic optimism or illusion of control?. British journal of psychology(1953). [Cited by 107] (7.52/year)
• MCKNIGHT, D.H., L.L. CUMMINGS and N.L. CHERVANY, 1998. Initial Trust Formation in New Organizational Relationships. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 460] (49.81/year)
• MIROWSKY, J. and C.E. ROSS, 1990. Control or Defense? Depression and the Sense of Control over Good and Bad Outcomes. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. [Cited by 57] (3.31/year)
• MITCHELL, R.K., et al., 2002. Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Cognition: Rethinking the People Side of Entrepreneurship …. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. [Cited by 64] (12.23/year)
• MOORE, S. and K. OHTSUKA, 1999. Beliefs about control over gambling among young people, and their relation to problem gambling. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. [Cited by 25] (3.04/year)
• MORRIS, M.W., D.L.H. SIM and V. GIROTTO, 1998. … the One-Round Prisoners Dilemma: Evidence for Cooperative Decisions Based on the Illusion of Control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [Cited by 25] (2.71/year)
• OHMAE, K., 1993. The Rise of the Region State. Foreign Affairs. [Cited by 136] (9.55/year)
• PHILLIPS, D., 1984. The Illusion of Incompetence among Academically Competent Children. Child Development. [Cited by 48] (2.07/year)
• PRESSON, P.K. and V.A. BENASSI, pan>. Illusion of control: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 1996<. [Cited by 28] (?/year)
• SALANCIK, G.R. and J.R. MEINDL, 1984. Corporate Attributions as Strategic Illusions of Management Control. Administrative Science Quarterly. [Cited by 196] (8.44/year)
• SANDERSON, R., pan>. … 1989) WC Sanderson, RM Rapee and DH Barlow, The influence of an illusion of control on panic attacks …. Archives of General Psychiatry, 1989<. [Cited by 5] (?/year)
• SANDERSON, W.C., R.M. RAPEE and D.H. BARLOW, 1989. The influence of an illusion of control on panic attacks induced via inhalation of 5.5% carbon …. Archives of General Psychiatry. [Cited by 130] (7.13/year)
• SCHWENK, C.R., 1986. Information, Cognitive Biases, and Commitment to a Course of Action. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 68] (3.20/year)
• SCHWENK, C.R., 1984. Cognitive Simplification Processes in Strategic Decision-Making. Strategic Management Journal. [Cited by 257] (11.06/year)
• SCHWENK, C.R., 1988. The cognitive perspective on strategic decision making. Journal of Management Studies. [Cited by 115] (5.98/year)
• SHEDLER, J., M. MAYMAN and M. MANIS, 1993. The illusion of mental health. American Psychologist. [Cited by 256] (17.98/year)
• SIMON, M., S.M. HOUGHTON and K. AQUINO, 2000. Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies. Journal of Business Venturing. [Cited by 106] (14.65/year)
• SITKIN, S.B. and A.L. PABLO, 1992. Reconceptualizing the Determinants of Risk Behavior. The Academy of Management Review. [Cited by 294] (19.30/year)
• SKINNER, E.A., 1996. A guide to constructs of control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Cited by 224] (19.94/year)
• STAW, B.M. and S.G. BARSADE, 1993. Affect and Managerial Performance: A Test of the Sadder-but-Wiser vs. Happier-and-Smarter Hypotheses. Administrative Science Quarterly. [Cited by 122] (8.57/year)
• STERN, G.S. and J.L. BERRENBERG, pan>. Skill-set, success outcome, and mania as determinants of the illusion of control. Journal of Research in Personality, 1979<. [Cited by 9] (?/year)
• TAYLOR, S.E. and D.A. ARMOR, 1996. Positive illusions and coping with adversity. Journal of Personality. [Cited by 124] (11.04/year)
• TAYLOR, S.E. and J.D. BROWN, 1988. Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health. Psychological Bulletin. [Cited by 1696] (88.17/year)
• TAYLOR, S.E. and J.D. BROWN, 1994. Positive illusions and well-being revisited: Separating fact from fiction. Psychological Bulletin. [Cited by 240] (18.13/year)
• TAYLOR, S.E. and P.M. GOLLWITZER, 1995. Effects of mindset on positive illusions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [Cited by 99] (8.09/year)
• TENNEN, H. and J.P. SHARP, 1983. Control orientation and the illusion of control. Journal of Personality Assessment. [Cited by 6] (0.25/year)
• THOMPSON, C.E. and L.M. WANKEL, 1980. The effects of perceived activity choice upon frequency of exercise behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. [Cited by 39] (1.43/year)
• TONEATTO, T., et al., 1997. Cognitive Distortions in Heavy Gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies. [Cited by 56] (5.47/year)
• TRIMARCHI, J.R., 2001. A mathematical model for predicting which embryos to transfer-an illusion of control or a powerful …. Fertil Steril. [Cited by 6] (0.96/year)
• WEGNER…, D.M., 2002. [BOOK] The Illusion of Conscious Will. books.google.com. [Cited by 349] (66.67/year)
• WOLFGANG, A.N.N.K., 1984. Control Motivation and the Illusion of Control in Betting on Dice. Journal of Psychology. [Cited by 5] (0.22/year)