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comparative optimism

Description: A cognitive bias in which people believe they are less likely than others to experience negative events, or more likely to experience positive ones.
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The nature of entrepreneurial experience, business failure and comparative optimism
2009 · Deniz Ucbasaran, Paul Westhead, et al. · Journal of Business Venturing · 547
Dispositional, Unrealistic, and Comparative Optimism: Differential Relations with the Knowledge and Processing of Risk Information and Beliefs about Personal Risk
2002 · Nathan M. Radcliffe, William M. P. Klein · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 330
Exploring the Causes of Comparative Optimism
2002 · James A. Shepperd, Patrick Carroll, et al. · Psychologica Belgica · 214
Egocentrism, Event Frequency, and Comparative Optimism: When what Happens Frequently is “More Likely to Happen to Me”
2003 · John R. Chambers, Paul D. Windschitl, et al. · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 205
The illusion of control and optimism about health: On being less at risk but no more in control than others
1994 · Peter Harris, Wendy Middleton · British Journal of Social Psychology · 181
Testing the limits of optimistic bias: Event and person moderators in a multilevel framework.
2008 · Peter R. Harris, Dale W. Griffin, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 133
Comparative optimism for environmental risks
2005 · Sabine Pahl, P.R. Harris, et al. · Journal of Environmental Psychology · 122
My privacy is okay, but theirs is endangered: Why comparative optimism matters in online privacy concerns
2013 · Young Min Baek, Eun-mee Kim, et al. · Computers in Human Behavior · 111
Context Effects in the Measurement of Comparative Optimism in Probability Judgments
1996 · Wilma Otten, Joop Van Der Pligt · Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · 100
Exploring Optimistic Bias and the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction in the Context of a Campus Influenza Outbreak
2012 · Hye Kyung Kim, Jeff Niederdeppe · Journal of Health Communication · 81
Beliefs and Risk Perceptions About COVID-19: Evidence From Two Successive French Representative Surveys During Lockdown
2021 · Arthur E. Attema, Olivier L’Haridon, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 75
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Personality, Preventive Health Behaviour and Comparative Optimism about Health Problems
1999 · David K. Ingledew, Stuart Brunning · Journal of Health Psychology · 75
Road-tunnel fires: Risk perception and management strategies among users
2008 · Marc Gandit, Dongo Rémi Kouabenan, et al. · Safety Science · 72
Risk of crashing with a tram: Perceptions of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists
2012 · Carole Castanier, Françoise Paran, et al. · Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour · 57
Comparative optimism among drivers: An intergenerational portrait
2009 · Dominique Gosselin, Sylvain Gagnon, et al. · Accident Analysis & Prevention · 56
Examining self-presentation as a motivational explanation for comparative optimism.
2009 · James M. Tyler, Jennifer Gill Rosier · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 55
‘If I don't get blown up ...’: realism in face of terrorism in an Israeli nationwide sample
2002 · YECHIEL KLAR, DAN ZAKAY, et al. · Risk Decision and Policy · 55
Intention to use bicycle helmet as explained by the Health Belief Model, comparative optimism and risk perception in an Iranian sample
2018 · Mohsen Fallah Zavareh, Amin Mohamadi Hezaveh, et al. · Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour · 51
Comparative Risk and Perceived Control: Implications for Psychological and Physical Well-Being Among Older Adults
2007 · Joelle C. Ruthig, Judith G. Chipperfield, et al. · The Journal of Social Psychology · 46
Who Reaps the Benefits, Who Bears the Risks? Comparative Optimism, Comparative Utility, and Regulatory Preferences for Mobile Phone Technology
2007 · Mathew P. White, J. Richard Eiser, et al. · Risk Analysis · 44
The effect of target group size on risk judgments and comparative optimism: The more, the riskier.
2006 · Paul C. Price, Andrew R. Smith, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 43
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Comparative optimism in breast cancer risk perception: Effects of experience and risk factor knowledge
2000 · P. Absetz, A. R. Aro, et al. · Psychology Health & Medicine · 43
How optimistic are repressors? the relationship between repressive coping, controllability, self-esteem and comparative optimism for health-related events
2000 · Lynn B. Myers, Donna Reynolds · Psychology and Health · 41
Relationships Among Trait, Situational, and Comparative Optimism: Clarifying Concepts for a Theoretically Consistent and Evidence-Based Intervention to Maximize Resilience
2006 · Kathleen R. Tusaie, Kathleen Patterson · Archives of Psychiatric Nursing · 39
Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID‐19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice
2020 · Koula Asimakopoulou, Vera Hoorens, et al. · Health Expectations · 37
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