The optimistic bias is defined as judging one's own risk as less than the risk of others. Researchers have identified numerous personal and situational factors that moderate the …
Researchers have used terms such as unrealistic optimism and optimistic bias to refer to concepts that are similar but not synonymous. Drawing from 3 decades of research, we …
J Kruger - Journal of personality and social psychology, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
Like the inhabitants of Garrison Keillor's (1985) fictional community of Lake Wobegon, most people appear to believe that their skills and abilities are above average. A series of studies …
Welche psychologischen Prozesse sind für eine gesunde Lebensweise oder für riskante Gewohnheiten verantwortlich? Im Blickpunkt der Neubearbeitung des Bandes steht …
R Schwarzer - Psychology and health, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
This paper disentangles a number of closely related cognitions by dividing them into the categories of defensive and functional optimism. Optimistic biases in risk perception are …
Biases in social comparative judgments, such as those illustrated by above-average and comparative-optimism effects, are often regarded as products of motivated reasoning (eg …
CTF Klein, M Helweg-Larsen - Psychology and health, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
People consistently believe that negative events are less likely to happen to them than to others. Research suggests a relationship between this optimistic bias and perceived control …
DA Armor, SE Taylor - Advances in experimental social psychology, 1998 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the role of specific outcome expectancies in self- regulation. It is observed that specific expectancies are commonly found to be optimistic. The …
Which behaviour patterns are detrimental to health? Why do people engage in such behaviour, even if they know about its negative effects? How can people be influenced to …