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Optimism Bias in Fans and Sports Reporters. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 People are optimistic about their prospects relative to others. However, existing studies can be difficult to interpret because outcomes are not zero-sum.
Bradley C Love +2 more
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Risk perception bias, lifestyle, and chronic disease risk in the middle-aged and older Chinese population: results of a national prospective longitudinal study [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Risk perception bias is a widespread psychological phenomenon among the public that influences health-related behaviors. However, its longitudinal association with the onset and progression of various chronic diseases, particularly among ...
Yujun Zhong, Jindan Cao
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Invulnerability bias in perceptions of artificial intelligence’s future impact on employment [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the labor market; however, individuals’ perceptions of its impact remain inconsistent. This study investigates the presence of the Invulnerability Bias (IB), where workers perceive that AI will ...
Felipe Barrera-Jimenez +3 more
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Does the Coronavirus Epidemic Take Advantage of Human Optimism Bias? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Hugo Bottemanne +5 more
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Optimism Bias in Firearm-Related Risk Perceptions.
JAMA Netw Open, 2023 This survey study assesses the perceptions of California adults about the safety and risk of personal firearm use or access vs firearm use or access by others.
Aubel AJ, Wintemute GJ, Kravitz-Wirtz N.
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Bias Reduction in Sample-Based Optimization [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2022 We consider stochastic optimization problems which use observed data to estimate essential characteristics of the random quantities involved. Sample average approximation (SAA) or empirical (plug-in) estimation are very popular ways to use data in optimization. It is well known that sample average optimization suffers from downward bias.
Darinka Dentcheva, Yang Lin
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Individuals are more optimistic about their own future than a comparable person’s future (personal optimism bias). In addition, they show overoptimism toward people or social groups they identify with compared with those they do not identify with (social
Tatjana Aue +4 more
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Synthesizing optimal bias in randomized self-stabilization [PDF]
Distributed Computing, 2021 AbstractRandomization is a key concept in distributed computing to tackle impossibility results. This also holds for self-stabilization in anonymous networks where coin flips are often used to break symmetry. Although the use of randomization in self-stabilizing algorithms is rather common, it is unclear what the optimal coin bias is so as to minimize ...
Volk, Matthias +3 more
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Optimality bias in moral judgment [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2017 We often make decisions with incomplete knowledge of their consequences. Might people nonetheless expect others to make optimal choices, despite this ignorance? Here, we show that people are sensitive to moral optimality: that people hold moral agents accountable depending on whether they make optimal choices, even when there is no way that the agent ...
De Freitas, Julian +1 more
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Optimism Bias during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Romania and Italy
Games, 2020 Given the importance of perceived susceptibility to a disease in adopting preventive behaviors, and the negative impact of optimism bias on prevention, this paper aimed to explore to what extent comparative optimism bias (understood as the tendency to ...
Elena Druică +2 more
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