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Unrealistic optimism on information security management
Computers & Security, 2012Information security is a critical issue that many firms face these days. While increasing incidents of information security breaches have generated extensive publicity, previous studies repeatedly expose low levels of managerial awareness and commitment, a key obstacle to achieving a good information security posture.
Hyeun-Suk Rhee +2 more
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Unrealistic optimism among adolescent smokers and nonsmokers
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1991Two studies were conducted to investigate unrealistic optimism among adolescent cigarette smokers. In the first study, 54 smokers and 304 nonsmokers agreed that there was a strong relationship between smoking and lung cancer. Nonsmokers accurately perceived their chances of contracting lung cancer as below average. However, smokers perceived themselves
J D, Reppucci +3 more
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Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1982In this study, 100 college students compared their own chances of experiencing 45 different health- and life-threatening problems with the chances of their peers. They showed a significant optimistic bias for 34 of these hazards, consistently considering their own chances to be below average.
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Understanding people’s ‘unrealistic optimism’ about clinical research participation
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019BackgroundResearchers worry that patients in early-phase research experience unrealistic optimism about benefits and risks of participation. The standard measure of unrealistic optimism is the Comparative Risk/Benefit Assessment (CRBA) questionnaire, which asks people to estimate their chances of an outcome relative to others in similar situations ...
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Unrealistic optimism: a behavioural sciences classroom demonstration project
Medical Education, 1994Summary: Unrealistic optimism may contribute to risky health practices and to a delay in seeking treatment for medical conditions, as most individuals perceive themselves to be at little risk for various disorders.
H M, McGee, J, Cairns
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Assessing Unrealistic Optimism
Journal of Health Psychology, 2009The effects of measurement method on levels of unrealistic optimism for developing diabetes were examined in 323 UK adults. A mixed factorial design comprised direct and indirect measures of unrealistic optimism as the within-subjects variable, and between-subjects manipulations of the order of direct versus indirect assessment, the order of self ...
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Cultural variation in unrealistic optimism
2008The recently proposed notion that self-enhancing biases are significantly implicated in mental health is being challenged by cross-cultural research which suggests that such biases may be limited to cultures which foster an independent construal of self.
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Unrealistic optimism about future life events.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life events. In Study 1, 258 college students estimated how much their own chances of experiencing 42 events differed from the chances of their classmates.
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Unrealistic Optimism: Present and Future
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1996Neil D. Weinstein, William M. Klein
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