It found that: (a) beliefs about risk likelihood, beliefs about risk severity, and worry about the risk all made independent contributions to interest in risk reduction (b) unrealistic optimism undermined interest in risk reduction indirectly by decreasing worry and (c) beliefs about risk likelihood and severity were not sufficient to explain the amount of worry expressed about different hazards. The investigation also examined the importance of beliefs and emotions as determinants of self-reported interest in adopting precautions to reduce one's risk. Attempts to account for the amount of bias evoked by different hazards identified perceived controllability, lack of previous experience, and the belief that the problem appears during childhood as factors that tend to increase unrealistic optimism. A robust finding in social psychology is that people judge negative events as less likely to happen to themselves than to the average person, a behavior. They showed a significant optimistic bias for 34 of these hazards, consistently considering their own chances to be below average. In lay terms, optimistic bias (Weinstein, 1980) is the belief that bad things happen to other people. Le terme biais fait rfrence une dviation systmatique de la pense logique et rationnelle par rapport la ralit. The optimism bias was first encountered in a 1980 study by psychologist Neil Weinstein, although it was then labeled unrealistic optimism. Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be. Un biais cognitif est une dviation dans le traitement cognitif d'une information. Although such comparisons cannot be used to identify optimistic biases within. they will develop a serious health condition during their lives (Weinstein, 1980). 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. Weinstein Published 1 November 1980 Psychology Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. an automobile accident, or experiencing health problems (Weinstein, 1980). Here we consider the nature of unrealistic optimism and other related.

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