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Event Valence and Unrealistic Optimism

Psychological Reports, 2003
The effect of event valence on unrealistic optimism was studied. 94 Deakin University students rated the comparative likelihood that they would experience either a controllable or an uncontrollable health-related event. Valence was manipulated to be positive (outcome was desirable) or negative (outcome was undesirable) by varying the way a given event
Ron S, Gold, Kate, Martyn
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Anxiety and Unrealistic Optimism

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Substantial evidence suggest that people tend to be unrealistically optimistic that positive events will happen to them and that negative events will not. However, recent research indicates that under certain conditions they may be unrealistically pessimistic.
C, Dewberry, M, Ing, S, James, M, Nixon, S, Richardson   +4 more
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Unrealistic optimism and genetic risk

Psychology & Health, 1996
Abstract The occurrence of unrealistic optimism with regard to a genetic risk situation was investigated within a group of female adults (study 1) and a group of adolescents (study 2). In both studies, the indirect method of measurement elicited a significant optimistic bias. Contrary to Weinstein (1982, 1987) we found no relation between the direct or
Myriam Welkenhuysen, Gerry Evers-kiebooms, Marleen Decruyenaere, Herman van Den Berghe   +3 more
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Unrealistic optimism and event threat

Psychology, Health & Medicine, 2008
Individuals typically exhibit "unrealistic optimism" (UO), the belief that they are less likely than the average person to experience a negative event. This may be because, fearing the event, they try to reassure themselves by distorting their reasoning to conclude that they are at comparatively little risk. If this is so, the greater the "event threat"
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Unrealistic optimism in internet events

Computers in Human Behavior, 2007
This study assessed the tendency for individuals to be unrealistically optimistic about internet related activities. Ninety-seven participants estimated their chances of experiencing 31 positive and negative internet events compared to the average student at their school.
Jamonn Campbell, Nathan Greenauer, Kristin Macaluso, Christian End   +3 more
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Risk Perception: Unrealistic Optimism or Realistic Expectancy

Psychological Reports, 1999
The current study investigated risk perception and Unrealistic Optimism as a function of involvement in risk. 74 undergraduate students were asked to rate how likely they were to encounter various negative consequences relative to various comparison targets (child, peer, and parent) and specified their actual involvement in risk-taking.
P, Todesco, S B, Hillman
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Event Valence and Unrealistic Optimism: Further Evidence

Psychological Reports, 2004
Unrealistic optimism is assessed using either a single question, the rating of own likelihood of experiencing an event compared to that of the average person, or two questions, separate rating of own likelihood and that of the average person. The effect of event valence on unrealistic optimism was studied in a sample of 175 students using the two ...
Ron S, Gold, Kate, Martyn
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Unrealistic Optimism and the Health Belief Model

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2000
Why do people fail to engage in positive behaviors which will promote their health and well-being? Researchers addressing this question adopt primarily one of two perspectives, drawing either on theories of health behavior, such as the Health Belief Model (HBM), or on theories of risk perception, such as unrealistic optimism.
V A, Clarke, H, Lovegrove, A, Williams, M, Machperson   +3 more
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Informed Consent, Therapeutic Misconception, and Unrealistic Optimism

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2020
The Belmont Report attested to the cardinal importance of informed consent for ethical research on human subjects. Important challenges to securing informed consent have emerged since its publication more than 40 years ago. Among some of the most significant of these challenges are those that highlight social psychological factors that have the ...
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