Mediating Role of Optimism Bias and Risk Perception Between Emotional Intelligence and Decision-Making: A Serial Mediation Model [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The commodity market plays a vital role in boosting the economy. Investors make decisions based on market knowledge and ignore cognitive biases. These cognitive biases or judgment errors have a significant effect on investment decisions.
Chaoran Chen +4 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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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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The link between optimism bias and attention bias: A neurocognitive perspective
Neuroscience and 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
Tatjana Aue
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The effect of induced optimism on the optimistic update bias [PDF]
BMC Psychology, 2020 Background Individuals tend to have an optimism bias, processing desirable information more frequently than undesirable information. However, people who have been diagnosed with depression often have a more pessimistic view of the future.
Shinpei Yoshimura, Yuma Hashimoto
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How dopamine enhances an optimism bias in humans. [PDF]
Curr Biol, 2012 When predicting financial profits, relationship outcomes, longevity, or professional success, people habitually underestimate the likelihood of future negative events. This well-known bias, termed unrealistic optimism, is observed across age, culture, and species, and has a significant societal impact on domains ranging from financial markets to health
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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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Does the Coronavirus Epidemic Take Advantage of Human Optimism Bias? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Hugo Bottemanne +5 more
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Psychometric properties of the Probability Bias Measure. [PDF]
PLoS ONEProbability bias is the tendency to think that negative events are relatively likely to happen, and that positive events are relatively unlikely to happen. It is reliably associated with depressive and anxious symptom severity.
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Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety [PDF]
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 Dominique Maciejewski, Iro Fragkaki
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