Further, according to Roger’s own research from 1994,16 and the review of the literature by him and his colleagues in 2010, we only think of ourselves as future-time superheroes. When estimating the efficiency of others we are actually comparatively pessimistic, overestimating how long it will take them to complete tasks, and often predicting that they will run into problems that will delay their completion of the task. Researchers in this area have found that this effect applies across different kinds of task estimation, suggesting that our prospective memory abilities as they relate to other
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