Optimistic bias, risky behavior, and social norms among Indian college students during COVID-19. [PDF]
Pers Individ Dif, 2021 Shukla S, Mishra SK, Rai H.
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Lack of optimistic bias during social evaluation learning reflects reduced positive self-beliefs in depression and social anxiety, but via distinct mechanisms. [PDF]
Sci RepProcessing social feedback optimistically may maintain positive self-beliefs and stable social relationships. Conversely, a lack of this optimistic bias in depression and social anxiety may perpetuate negative self-beliefs and maintain symptoms. Research
Hoffmann JA +3 more
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Brief report - "Every little thing gonna be all right" (at least for me): Dispositional optimists display higher optimistic bias for infection during the Italian COVID-19 outbreak. [PDF]
Pers Individ Dif, 2021 Monzani D +3 more
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The influence of regularly changing enrichment on the cognitive judgement bias of laboratory rats [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe provision of environmental enrichment is a frequently used refinement method to improve welfare of laboratory animals. Compared to barren housing conditions, enrichment could decrease signs of impaired welfare, such as stress hormone concentrations ...
Elena Groneberg +3 more
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Apparent age and gender differences in survival optimism: To what extent are they a bias in the translation of beliefs onto a percentage scale? [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2021 A standard way to elicit expectations asks for the percentage chance an event will occur. Previous research demonstrates noise in reported percentages. The current research models a bias; a five percentage point change in reported probabilities implies a
David A. Comerford
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Relationship between Phobic Anxiety in Work and Leisure Activity Situations, and Optimistic Bias Associated with COVID-19 among South Koreans. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the public is unable to maintain a proper balance between work and leisure, and an increase in community-based infections is causing severe phobic anxiety.
Kim YJ, Kim ES.
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Once an Optimist, Always an Optimist? Studying Cognitive Judgment Bias in Mice
Behavioral Ecology, 2021 Abstract Individuals differ in the way they judge ambiguous information: some individuals interpret ambiguous information in a more optimistic, and others in a more pessimistic way. Over the past two decades, such “optimistic” and “pessimistic” cognitive judgment biases (CJBs) have been utilized in animal welfare science as indicators
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Analysts’ disagreement, self-selection, and stock returns
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2023 Two ex-ante variables are introduced to characterize the analysts’ biased behavior, namely the analysts’ disagreement and self-selection in analysts’ earnings forecasts.
Liang Wu +3 more
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Investor Sentiment and Management Earnings Forecast [PDF]
پژوهشهای تجربی حسابداری, 2022 The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between investor’s sentiment and bias in management earnings forecast. To do this, three hypotheses are formulated. The sample consists of 165 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2010-2010.
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Mass Communication & Society, 2022 When societies are struck by large-scale disruptions, biases in citizens’ personal risk assessment and the spread of misinformation are often reason for concern.
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