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Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1982
In 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, 2019
BackgroundResearchers 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 ...
Hae Lin Cho, David Gibbes Miller, Scott Y H Kim   +2 more
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Unrealistic optimism: a behavioural sciences classroom demonstration project

Medical Education, 1994
Summary: 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, 2009
The 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 ...
Hevey, David, French, David P., Marteau, Theresa M., Sutton, Stephen   +3 more
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Cultural variation in unrealistic optimism

2008
The 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, 1980
Two 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

2020
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Unrealistic Optimism: Present and Future

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Neil D. Weinstein, William M. Klein
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Unrealistic optimism and attitudes towards mental health

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1989
J, Mahatane, M, Johnston
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Unrealistic optimism – Its nature, causes and effects

Consciousness and Cognition, 2017
Anneli, Jefferson, Lisa, Bortolotti, Bojana, Kuzmanovic   +2 more
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