Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety. [PDF]
Pers Individ Dif, 2021 During the Covid-19 pandemic, the governments are trying to contain the spread with non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as social distancing rules, restrictions, and lockdowns.
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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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Learning to Look at the Bright Side of Life: Attention Bias Modification Training Enhances Optimism Bias [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Identifying neurocognitive mechanisms underlying optimism bias is essential to understand its benefits for well-being and mental health. The combined cognitive biases hypothesis suggests that biases (e.g., in expectancies and attention) interact and ...
Laura Kress, Tatjana Aue
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The link between optimism bias and attention bias: A neurocognitive perspective
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 Both optimism bias and reward-related attention bias have crucial implications for well-being and mental health. Yet, the extent to which the two biases interact remains unclear because, to date, they have mostly been discussed in isolation. Examining interactions between the two biases can lead to new directions in neurocognitive research by revealing
Kress, Laura, Aue, Tatjana
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How Optimism Bias and Safety Climate Influence the Risk-Taking Behavior of Construction Workers. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Risk taking among construction workers is a critical topic in construction safety research. The aim of this study was to empirically investigate how optimism bias and safety climate influence construction worker risk-taking behavior.
Man SS, Yu R, Zhang T, Chan AHS.
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Whistling Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Optimism Bias and Political Beliefs in the United States. [PDF]
Am Polit Res, 2022 Utilizing a nationally representative survey of Americans from December 2020, we consider the degree to which COVID-19 risk perceptions are related to political factors. We examine the likelihood that one believes they will be infected with COVID-19, the
Wolaver A, Doces J.
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Beware of Optimism Bias in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Ann Neurol, 2021 The coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2], coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) pandemic has caused over 88 million confirmed cases and nearly 2 million deaths worldwide as of December 2020.
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Optimism Bias, Pessimism Bias, Magical Beliefs, and Conspiracy Theory Beliefs Related to COVID-19 among the Jordanian Population. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2021 The outbreak of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus has an enormous impact on health. People’s views about the virus impact public health efforts to mitigate the pandemic. In this study, we measured misconceptions toward coronavirus in the Jordanian population; 2,
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Media intervention program for reducing unrealistic optimism bias: The link between unrealistic optimism, well-being, and health. [PDF]
Appl Psychol Health Well Being, 2022 Unrealistic optimism is the tendency to perceive oneself as safer than others in situations that equally threaten everybody. By reducing fear, this bias boosts one's well‐being; however, it is also a deterrent to one's health.
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Who, me? Optimism bias about US teenagers' ability to quit vaping. [PDF]
Addiction, 2021 BACKGROUND AND AIMS The vaping rate among US teenagers has doubled in the last 2 years, which may be explained in part by teenagers' optimism that they would have relatively little trouble in quitting.
Strombotne K, Sindelar J, Buckell J.
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