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Mediating role of future fear of violence between the direct violence and witnessed violence and psychological capital: a study of doctors and nurses. [PDF]
Çakır O +6 more
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Optimism is an individual difference variable that reflects the extent to which people hold generalized favorable expectancies for their future. Higher levels of optimism have been related prospectively to better subjective well-being in times of adversity or difficulty (i.e., controlling for previous well-being).
Charles S Carver, Suzanne C Segerstrom
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Forward-looking agents care about expected future utility flows, and hence have higher current felicity if they are optimistic. This paper studies utility-based biases in beliefs by supposing that beliefs maximize average felicity, optimally balancing this benefit of optimism against the costs of worse decision making.
Brunnermeier, Markus K +1 more
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