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Physicians at the crossroad of prognosis and faith: practical help communicating with patients and families during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021
Physicians will ultimately face the necessary but unpleasant task of caring for a dying patient at some point in their careers. Communicating with patients or their families during such dire times is very important especially when the patient or family ...
Joshua K. Salabei, Troy J. Fishman, Steven J Schwartz, Peters Okonoboh, Uma G. Iyer   +4 more
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Vestibular stimulation attenuates unrealistic optimism [PDF]

Cortex, 2013
INTRODUCTION: 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, Tamagni, Corinne, Palla, Antonella, Krummenacher, Peter, Hegemann, Stefan C. A., Straumann, Dominik, Brugger, Peter   +6 more
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Unrealistic comparative optimism: An unsuccessful search for evidence of a genuinely motivational bias. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
One of the most accepted findings across psychology is that people are unrealistically optimistic in their judgments of comparative risk concerning future life events-they judge negative events as less likely to happen to themselves than to the average ...
Adam J L Harris, Laura de Molière, Melinda Soh, Ulrike Hahn   +3 more
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The Psychology Underlying Biased Forecasts of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper discusses the impact of a series of psychological phenomena on the U.S. response to COVID-19, focusing on forecasts of cases and deaths.
Hersh Shefrin
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach, Tim Wildschut, Jacob Juhl, Constantine Sedikides, Odilia Laceulle   +4 more
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The influence of cognitive factors on pathological gambling

Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, 2017
The purpose of this study wasto examine the role of cognitive factors, such as superstition, locus of control, decision-making and unrealistic optimism,on gambling.Eighty-six subjects participated in this study.
Tindara Caprì, Angela Foti, Rosa Angela Fabio, Annamaria Pugliese, Gabriella Martino   +4 more
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COVID-19 and a biased public mentality toward infection and vaccination: A case of unrealistic optimism and social comparisons between the vaccinated and unvaccinated

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2022
Unrealistic Optimism in the context of COVID-19 is described as the tendency to perceive peers as being more at risk of infection. To date, however, no research has proposed more specific comparisons.
Wojciech Kulesza, Dariusz Dolinski, Paweł Muniak, Tomasz Grzyb, Aidana Rizulla   +4 more
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Unrealistic Optimism in the Pursuit of Academic Success

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Although the ability to evaluate one’s own knowledge and performance is critical to learning, the correlation between students’ self-evaluation and actual performance measures is modest at best.
Rich Lewine, Alison Sommers
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Correction: Unrealistic comparative optimism: An unsuccessful search for evidence of a genuinely motivational bias. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173136.].
PLOS ONE Staff
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The need to control for regression to the mean in social psychology studies

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
It is common in repeated measurements for extreme values at the first measurement to approach the mean at the subsequent measurement, a phenomenon called regression to the mean (RTM). If RTM is not fully controlled, it will lead to erroneous conclusions.
Rongjun eYu, Li eChen
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