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Predictive modeling of optimism bias using gray matter cortical thickness [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 People have been shown to be optimistically biased when their future outcome expectancies are assessed. In fact, we display optimism bias (OB) toward our own success when compared to a rival individual’s (personal OB [POB]).
Raviteja Kotikalapudi +4 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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Toward a Deeper Understanding of Optimism Bias and Transport Project Cost Overrun
Project Management Journal, 2023 There is a growing face-value acceptance of optimism bias as the primary cause of transport cost overruns. This article provides a timely review of literature on optimism bias and transport infrastructure project cost overruns.
Yizi Chen +3 more
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Affective Decision-Making: A Theory of Optimism-Bias [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2010 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Anat Bracha, Donald Brown
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Optimism bias or an inconvenient truth?
The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2022 Our President reflects on our response to COVID-19 and looks forward to the future of surgical training.
N. Mortensen
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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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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
Sharot T +4 more
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South African Journal of Information Management, 2019 Background: Many Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are adopting and implementing e-government systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their service delivery systems, and Zimbabwe and Zambia are not an exception ...
Willard Munyoka, Manoj S. Maharaj
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Effect of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic and optimism bias in stock market forecasts.
Revista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2019 Stock market forecasting is an important and challenging process that influences investment decisions. This paper presents an experimental design that aims to measure the influence of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic and optimism bias in these ...
Victor Alberto Peña +1 more
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Big Earth Data, 2020 Reservoirs are installed as long-term assets to guarantee water and energy security for decades, if not centuries. However, the effect of siltation undermines reservoirs’ sustainability because it significantly reduces the reservoirs’ original capacity ...
Tobias Landwehr +4 more
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