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 ...
Erich Baker +2 more
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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 ...
Wakefield Morys-Carter
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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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Media intervention program for reducing unrealistic optimism bias: The link between unrealistic optimism, well‐being, and health [PDF]
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2022 Wojciech Kulesza +2 more
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Towards a neurobiology of unrealistic optimism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Punit eShah
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Unrealistic Optimism in the Time of Coronavirus Pandemic: May It Help to Kill, If So—Whom: Disease or the Person? [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020 Wojciech Kulesza, , Barbara Dolinska
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A Primer on Unrealistic Optimism [PDF]
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2015 Erika A Waters +2 more
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Taking Stock of Unrealistic Optimism [PDF]
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2013 Erika A Waters +2 more
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