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Prominent examples of wishful thinking include:
Prominent examples of wishful thinking include:
* Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression].
* Economist Irving Fisher said that "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" a few weeks before Stock Market Crash of 1929, which was followed by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression Great Depression].
* President [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion].
* President [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] believed that, if overpowered by Cuban forces, the CIA-backed rebels could "escape destruction by melting into the countryside" in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion Bay of Pigs Invasion].
While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P is true/false, therefore P is true/false."[1] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]].
While being a poor method for making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a particular form of [[logic]]al fallacywhen it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false that it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P is true/false, therefore P is true/false."[1] Wishful thinking, if this were true, would underlie appeals to [[emotion]].
== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory]
* [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16156178&dopt=Citation A study demonstrating wishful thinking in memory]
* [http://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking]
* [https://thedict.net/wishful+thinking.html Articles About Wishful Thinking]
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Psychology]]
