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Unrealistic optimism: East and west? [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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 ...
Joshi MS, Carter W.
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Toward a neurobiology of unrealistic optimism. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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).
Shah P.
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What is unrealistic optimism? [PDF]
Conscious Cogn, 2017 Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related positive illusions. We are interested in whether cognitive states that are unrealistically optimistic are belief states, whether they are false, and whether they are epistemically irrational. We also ask to what extent unrealistically optimistic cognitive states are fixed.
Jefferson A, Bortolotti L, Kuzmanovic B.
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Unrealistic Optimism and Risk for COVID-19 Disease. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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 ...
Gassen J +5 more
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Media intervention program for reducing unrealistic optimism bias: The link between unrealistic optimism, well-being, and health. [PDF]
Appl Psychol Health Well Being, 2022 Abstract Unrealistic optimism is the tendency to perceive oneself as safer than others in situations that equally threaten everybody. By reducing fear, this bias boosts one's well‐being; however, it is also a deterrent to one's health. Three experiments were run in a mixed‐design on 1831 participants to eliminate unrealistic optimism (
Dolinski D +5 more
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A Primer on Unrealistic Optimism. [PDF]
Curr Dir Psychol Sci, 2015 People display unrealistic optimism in their predictions about countless events, believing that their personal future outcomes will be more desirable than can possibly be true. We summarize the vast literature on unrealistic optimism by focusing on four broad questions: What is unrealistic optimism, when does it occur, why does it occur, and what are ...
Shepperd JA +3 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 ...
Izydorczak K +4 more
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Components of Unrealistic Optimism of College Students: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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.
Eshel Y, Kimhi S, Marciano H, Adini B.
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Unrealistic optimism about treatment risks for acute appendicitis. [PDF]
Br J Surg, 2022 Unrealistic optimism is a cognitive bias that causes people to think they are at lower risk of a negative outcome than they actually are. This study identified significant unrealistic optimism towards the risks of appendicitis treatment complications.
Rosen JE, Agrawal N, Flum DR, Liao JM.
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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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