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Optimistic bias for negative and positive events

Health Education, 2001
Presents results of an investigation into the occurrence of optimistic bias in relation to both positive and negative events, using absolute judgements to assess perceived risk for each of six events. Participants were asked why they offered different ratings for themselves and for others.
Susana O. Gouveia, Valerie Clarke
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Show, Not Tell: The Contingency Role of Infographics Versus Text in the Differential Effects of Message Strategies on Optimistic Bias

Science communication, 2019
Using an online between-subject experiment, this study tested the effects of message framing (gain vs. loss), reference point (self vs. other), and modality (text vs. infographics) in the scenario of recycling promotion.
Guanxiong Huang, Kang Li, Hairong Li
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AN OPTIMISTIC BIAS

Pediatrics, 1995
The evidence that prenatal care pays for itself is simply not strong enough to merit the virtual certainty with which this claim has been espoused. There is considerable risk in basing health programs and public health policy on information that is more optimistic than scientific ...
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Optimistic bias about dating/relationship violence among teens

Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
A survey of American adolescents documented optimistic bias regarding intimate partner violence (IPV). Teenagers believe they are less likely than peers to become victims of violence by a boyfriend or girlfriend, despite reporting some first-hand experience with violence.
John R. Chapin, Grace Coleman
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Optimistic Bias in Surrogate Prediction near Surrogate Optima

15th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, 2014
Anirban Chaudhuri, Raphael T. Haftka University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32601 Abstract Surrogates in general share the property that their predictions are intended to be unbiased. But in our experience, we found it to be erring more on the optimistic side when the optimum of a surrogate is verified by exact evaluation.
Anirban Chaudhuri, Raphael T. Haftka
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Health risk perception, optimistic bias, and personal satisfaction.

American journal of health behavior, 2010
To examine change in risk perception and optimistic bias concerning behavior-linked health threats and environmental health threats between adolescence and young adulthood and how these factors related to personal satisfaction.In 1996 and 2002, 1624 adolescents responded to a mailed questionnaire.Adolescents showed strong positive optimistic bias ...
Richard, Bränström, Yvonne, Brandberg
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Optimistic Bias Among Cigarette Smokers¹

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1993
Smokers, unlike other populations engaging in risky behavior, readily acknowledge that tobacco use increases their susceptibility to smoking‐related illness. This study used data from the Adult Use of Tobacco Survey to demonstrate that smokers, while acknowledging increased risk for illness, still show evidence of an optimistic bias in their perception
Suzanne C. Segerstrom, William J. Mcarthy, Nicholas H. Caskey, Todd M. Gross, Murray E. Jarvik   +4 more
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Optimistic bias in adolescent and adult smokers and nonsmokers

Addictive Behaviors, 2000
Optimistic biases regarding the risks of smoking were examined among 200 adolescents (aged 12-17) and 203 adults (aged 30-50). Strong majorities of adolescent and adult smokers and nonsmokers agreed that smoking is addictive and causes death for "most people" who smoke.
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The desirability bias in predictions: Going optimistic without leaving realism

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2010
Does desire for an outcome inflate optimism? Previous experiments have produced mixed resultsregarding the desirability bias, with the bulk of supportive findings coming from one paradigm—the classic marked-card paradigm in which people make discrete predictions about desirable orundesirable cards being drawn from decks.
Smith, Andrew R., Windschitl, Paul D., Rose, Jason P., Krizan, Zlatan   +3 more
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Adolescent Optimistic Bias Toward HIV/AIDS in Seoul, South Korea

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2011
The reported rates of HIV/AIDS cases and risky sexual behaviors have increased among adolescents in South Korea. This study reports the presence, impact, and development of optimistic bias toward HIV/AIDS in Korean adolescents. Survey data from 2996 participants were randomly collected from 8 high school and 8 middle school students in Seoul, South ...
Aeree, Sohn, Sungsoo, Chun, Easton A, Reid   +2 more
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