Subjective beliefs, health, and health behaviors

FA Sloan - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024 - Springer
This article reviews economic studies based on data from high income countries published
from 2007 to early 2024 to address three questions:(1) How accurate are subjective beliefs …

How” web searches change under stress

CA Kelly, B Blain, T Sharot - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
To adjust to stressful environments, people seek information. Here, we show that in
response to stressful public and private events the high-level features of information people …

How does COVID-19 risk perception affect sense of control? The roles of death anxiety and confucian coping

L Huang, Y Hou, Z Sun, Q Wang - International Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This research examined the impact of COVID-19 risk perception on sense of control, testing
the hypotheses that COVID-19 risk perception would reduce sense of control and that this …

Risk perception of SMEs: strategic risks, family-related risks, external risks

G Glowka, R Hule, A Zehrer - Risk Management, 2024 - Springer
While risk perception is essential in understanding risk-taking behavior, the risk perception
of Small-and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) remains widely unexplored. Analyzing the …

Perception, experience and resilience to risks: a global analysis

M Kieu, G Senanayake - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Individual resilience is crucial amid rising global threats, yet risk perceptions and resilience
worldwide remain inadequately elucidated. This research pioneers a global-scale analysis …

Differences in stakeholders' perception of the impact of COVID-19 on clinical care and decision-making

J Haier, J Beller, K Adorjan, S Bleich, M de Greck… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pandemics induce many changes in clinical management. The
consequences and extent of these changes are perceived in an individual manner and differ …

Event Time Perspective in Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Two Chinese Samples

VV Nourkova, AA Gofman - Timing & Time Perception, 2022 - brill.com
Little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the way people construct
their time perspective (TP). This study investigated past and future TP in Hubei, China …

Not too risky. How to take a reasonable stance on human enhancement

MM Vilaça, A Lavazza - Filosofia Unisinos, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Following a trend in bioethical/applied ethics approaches, one of the frustrating features of
studies on technological human enhancement is their dichotomous tendency. Often, benefits …

How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it

T Kube, M Wullenkord, L Rozenkrantz… - Political …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
People usually update their beliefs selectively in response to good news and disregard bad
news. Here, we investigated in two preregistered experiments (N= 278 and N= 306)(1) …

There is no belief update bias for neutral events: failure to replicate Burton et al.(2022)

N Garrett, T Sharot - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In a recent paper, Burton et al. claim that individuals update beliefs to a greater extent when
learning an event is less likely compared to more likely than expected. Here, we investigate …