Phys.org October 9, 2024
An international team of researchers (UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Columbia Business School) support the benefits of passion. They revealed significant variability in the size of the effect. To explain this heterogeneity, they proposed that passion is associated with performance overconfidence—inflated views about how well the self is performing and that this association provides a helpful lens in understanding when passion will be beneficial for performance. A daily diary field study with 829 employees (33,160 observations) and an experiment with 396 participants provided evidence that passion is associated with performance overconfidence. These findings provided a lens through which to discuss when, why, and for whom passion may be more helpful for performance or a potential pitfall… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE