That will give you a clue as to whether you have scope to become less cynical. So, the next time you think of someone as careless, keep in mind what the real root cause of that statement might be. You might be surprised at the assumptions you're making. Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless BBC. Photo by a2gemma. She claims that things are just "harder" for her or that she's "unlucky" when misplacing things, tripping, having to attempt tasks more than once to get the desired outcome, etc.
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Skip to navigation Skip to content. Discover Membership. Editions Quartz. More from Quartz About Quartz. Follow Quartz. In a lab study with about participants, we gave a free mug to everyone. We then asked everyone to play the block-stacking game Jenga in which their mugs were placed on top of the tower of blocks. As we expected, the participants who had seen the set of better-looking mugs played less well than other participants — that is, their mugs dropped more often from the tower.
In another set of lab studies conducted with about participants, we again documented carelessness with a wide assortment of consumable goods e. We found that participants intended to consume these products more quickly and use them more wastefully when the thought of an upgrade and not just a mere replacement was very salient in their minds.
They appeared to be unaware of their cavalier behavior, failing to acknowledge that they wanted to use more of the product than usual to attain an upgrade. Why do people engage in these apparently self-defeating practices? Because of our fundamental desire to justify our decisions.
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