Positive Illusions of Romantic Partners. But is it only how partners behave towards each other that matters? You might wonder if there are other ways to protect a relationship from insecurity.

Leaders can learn to maintain “positive illusions” about their colleagues. When leaders look on bright side they give others hope. By nature such hope is rooted in a leader’s faith in his or ...

In academics, however, long-term costs of positive illusions outweigh their short-run benefits, Robins and Beer say. They first studied 360 college students who formed five-person teams that ...

Polzer, J., R. Kramer, and M. Neale. "Positive Illusions About Oneself and One's Group: Antecedents and Consequences."Small Group Research 28 (May 1997): 243–266.