We examined whether comparative optimism characterizes the events people generate when they describe their future. In contrast to previous studies in which participants estimated the likelihoods of experimenter-generated events, our participants freely listed important events they believed were possible in their future versus the average person’s future. They also provided desirability ratings, controllability ratings, and likelihood estimates for these self-generated events. Participants listed more desirable and fewer undesirable events in their future than in the average person’s future. These differences were stronger for controllable than uncontrollable events. Comparative optimism was also observed in participants ’ ratings of the lik...
What do people see when they gaze into the future? Many people, at least among those in Western cul...
One of the most accepted findings across psychology is that people are unrealistically optimistic in...
Presents results of an investigation into the occurrence of optimistic bias in relation to both posi...
We examined whether comparative optimism characterizes the events people generate when they describe...
Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life e...
Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life e...
We review explanations offered by researchers for optimism in comparative risk judgments – the belie...
N. D. Weinstein (1980) established that optimistic bias, the tendency to see others as more vulnerab...
In many studies on comparative optimism, participants estimate the likelihood that various events wi...
International audienceComparative optimism can be defined as a self-serving, asymmetric judgment of ...
People appear to be unrealistically optimistic about their future prospects, as reflected by theory ...
A robust finding in social psychology is that people judge negative events as less likely to happen ...
The effect of event valence on unrealistic optimism was studied. 94 Deakin University students rated...
People typically attribute lower health risks to themselves than to others, a phenomenon referred to...
Most people believe that the future will bring them more good things than bad, and therefore have hi...
What do people see when they gaze into the future? Many people, at least among those in Western cul...
One of the most accepted findings across psychology is that people are unrealistically optimistic in...
Presents results of an investigation into the occurrence of optimistic bias in relation to both posi...
We examined whether comparative optimism characterizes the events people generate when they describe...
Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life e...
Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life e...
We review explanations offered by researchers for optimism in comparative risk judgments – the belie...
N. D. Weinstein (1980) established that optimistic bias, the tendency to see others as more vulnerab...
In many studies on comparative optimism, participants estimate the likelihood that various events wi...
International audienceComparative optimism can be defined as a self-serving, asymmetric judgment of ...
People appear to be unrealistically optimistic about their future prospects, as reflected by theory ...
A robust finding in social psychology is that people judge negative events as less likely to happen ...
The effect of event valence on unrealistic optimism was studied. 94 Deakin University students rated...
People typically attribute lower health risks to themselves than to others, a phenomenon referred to...
Most people believe that the future will bring them more good things than bad, and therefore have hi...
What do people see when they gaze into the future? Many people, at least among those in Western cul...
One of the most accepted findings across psychology is that people are unrealistically optimistic in...
Presents results of an investigation into the occurrence of optimistic bias in relation to both posi...