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Psikiyatride Güncel YaklaşımlarUnrealistic optimism is considered as an optimism bias based on the individual's motives of self-exaggeration and protection and is defined as evaluating oneself more positively than others.
Gülçin Karadeniz
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Can Unrealistic Optimism Among Consumers Precipitate Economic Recessions?
RisksThis paper examines the macroeconomic implications of unrealistic optimism, a psychological bias that has been largely overlooked in economic models.
Hyun-Soo Doh, Jiahao Pan
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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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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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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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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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International journal of health sciences, 2022 This study aimed to measure the unrealistic optimism of the two samples vaccinated and not vaccinated with Cov-19 virus. The researcher used a measure of unrealistic optimism (researcher’s construct), where the current study aimed at the existence of unrealistic optimism among the vaccinated with an arithmetic mean (94.7347) and a standard deviation ...
Zinah Ali Salih, Hanan Majiad Noor eabd
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OPTIMISM AND FEAR OF INFECTION AS PREDICTORS OF OBSERVING STAY-AT-HOME RECOMMENDATIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC [PDF]
Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2021 According to COVID-19 research, the introduction of a self-isolation and quarantine regime is an effective measure to contain the pandemic. The article examines the problem of psychological factors of observing stay-at-home recommendations, among which ...
OLEG A. SYCHEV +4 more
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Vestibular stimulation attenuates unrealistic optimism [PDF]
Cortex, 2013 Unrealistic optimism refers to the pervasive tendency of healthy individuals to underestimate their likelihood of future misfortune, including illness. The phenomenon shares a qualitative resemblance with anosognosia, a neurological disorder characterized by a deficient appreciation of manifest current illness or impairment.
McKay, Ryan +6 more
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Mimicry boosts social bias: unrealistic optimism in a health prevention case
Social Influence, 2023 Unrealistic optimism bias appears when a person perceives oneself – in comparison to peers – as less at risk from threats. This bias has been widely reported and the consequences are clear: it puts one’s health in danger.
Wojciech Kulesza +3 more
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