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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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Measuring optimism bias among military personnel
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2021 High numbers of young military personnel die due to road traffic collisions (RTCs). Yet, there is a paucity of research related to the contributing factors (i.e., optimism bias and willingness to take risks) associated with RTCs and the examination of ...
C. Cutello +4 more
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Reducing optimism bias in the driver’s seat: Comparing two interventions
, 2021 Optimism bias combined with sensation-seeking and risky driving have been proposed to be the main contributing factors to young drivers’ involvement in road traffic collisions. The present study aimed to evaluate how two brief interventions, one based on
C. Cutello +3 more
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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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International Review of Social Psychology, 2023 People are eager to update their beliefs, such as a perceived risk, if they receive information that is better than expected but are reluctant to do so when the evidence is unfavourable.
Mihai Dricu +3 more
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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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Are Investors Warned by Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest? The Moderating Effect of Investment Horizon [PDF]
, 2020 Financial analysts are required to disclose conflicts of interest (COI) in their research reports, but there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of COI disclosures.
Huang, Z. +3 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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Optimism bias in susceptibility to phishing attacks: an empirical study
Information and Computer SecurityPurpose Researchers looking for ways to change the insecure behaviour that results in phishing have considered multiple possible reasons for such behaviour. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to understand the role of optimism bias (OB – defined as
Morné Owen +2 more
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