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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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Relationships Between Self-Rated Health at Three Time Points: Past, Present, Future
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Background: Multiple studies have shown that people who have experienced a serious health problem such as an injury tend to overrate the quality of health they had before that event.
Andreas Hinz +6 more
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Seeing through rose-colored glasses: How optimistic expectancies guide visual attention. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Optimism bias and positive attention bias have important highly similar implications for mental health but have only been examined in isolation. Investigating the causal relationships between these biases can improve the understanding of their underlying
Laura Kress, Mirko Bristle, Tatjana Aue
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Analysts’Optimism and Selection Bias [PDF]
Brazilian Business Review, 2007 This paper is an empirical examination, drawing on the Institutional Brokers Estimate System (I/B/E/S) database, of analysts’ earnings forecast optimism for Brazilian companies. The study found that analysts were optimistic on average and performed poorly in terms of precision and accuracy. The study period was January 1995 to December 2002.
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Optimistic Environmental Messaging Increases State Optimism and in vivo Pro-environmental Behavior
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Despite recent empirical interest, the links between optimism and pessimism with pro-environmental behavior (PEB) remain equivocal. This research is characterized by a reliance on cross-sectional data, a focus on trait-level at the neglect of state-level
Megan MacKinnon +2 more
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Unrealistic optimism: east and west?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Following Weinstein’s pioneering work (1980) many studies established that people have an optimistic bias concerning future life events. At first, the bulk of research was conducted using populations in North America and Northern Europe, the optimistic ...
Mary Sissons Joshi, Wakefield eCarter
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Exploring the Nature and Impact of Client-Related Delays on Contemporary Saudi Construction Projects
Buildings, 2022 In rapidly developing countries such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where the construction of buildings and supporting infrastructure is critical to achieving strategic developmental milestones, delays to capital projects can derail other sectors ...
Essa Alenazi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Behavioral Finance is an evolving field that studies how psychological factors affect decision making under uncertainty. This study seeks to find the influence of certain identified behavioral financial biases on the decision-making process of investors ...
Mingming Zhang +4 more
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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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Optimistic Third-Party Sellers in E-Commerce Supply Chains
SystemsThis paper investigates the effects of optimism in an e-commerce supply chain where two third-party sellers offer substitutable products through a shared e-commerce platform.
Jialu Li, Giri K. Tayi
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