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Unrealistic optimism: east and west? [PDF]
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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Unrealistic Optimism and Risk for COVID-19 Disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Risk perception and consequently engagement in behaviors to avoid illness often do not match actual risk of infection, morbidity, and mortality. Unrealistic optimism occurs when individuals falsely believe that their personal outcomes will be more ...
Jeffrey Gassen +5 more
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Towards a neurobiology of unrealistic optimism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Research spanning three decades has found that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism (or “optimism bias”), the tendency to underestimate the likelihood of negative events and overestimate the likelihood of positive events (Weinstein, 1980).
Punit eShah
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Taking Stock of Unrealistic Optimism [PDF]
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2013 Researchers have used terms such as unrealistic optimism and optimistic bias to refer to concepts that are similar but not synonymous. Drawing from 3 decades of research, we discuss critically how researchers define unrealistic optimism, and we identify four types that reflect different measurement approaches: unrealistic absolute optimism at the ...
James A Shepperd +2 more
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Temporal aspects of unrealistic optimism and robustness of this bias: A longitudinal study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Numerous studies on unrealistic optimism (UO) have shown that people claim they are less exposed to COVID-19 infection than others. Yet, it has not been assessed if this bias evolves; does it escalate or diminish when the information about the threat ...
Kamil Izydorczak +4 more
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Components of Unrealistic Optimism of College Students: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 College students are among the most strongly affected populations by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic because of uncertainty regarding academic success, future careers, and social life during their study period.
Yohanan Eshel +5 more
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It Matters to Whom You Compare Yourself: The Case of Unrealistic Optimism and Gender-Specific Comparisons [PDF]
American Journal of Men's Health, 2023 Unrealistic Optimism (UO) appears when comparing participants’ risk estimates for themselves with an average peer, which typically results in lower risk estimates for the self.
Wojciech Kulesza +6 more
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Unrealistic optimism and decision making [PDF]
Psihologija, 2009 One of the leading descriptive theories of decision-making under risk, Tversky & Kahneman's Prospect theory, reveals that normative explanation of decisionmaking, based only on principle of maximizing outcomes expected utility, is unsustainable.
Božović Bojana, Gvozdenović Vasilije
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Optimism bias, judgment of severity, and behavioral change during two stages of the pandemics in China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWe investigated the factors and consequences of optimism bias during two critical periods of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. In February 2020, we conducted Study 1 (N = 4313) to examine the initial outbreak.
Dannuo Lyu, Fanli Jia, Xiaosong Gai
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Invulnerability bias in perceptions of artificial intelligence’s future impact on employment [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the labor market; however, individuals’ perceptions of its impact remain inconsistent. This study investigates the presence of the Invulnerability Bias (IB), where workers perceive that AI will ...
Felipe Barrera-Jimenez +3 more
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