Optimism bias or optimistic bias is a cognitive bias that causes someone to believe that they themselves are less likely to experience a negative event...
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Optimism is an attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavor, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favorable, and...
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Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral...
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Decision-making (redirect from Source credibility bias)
depending if the situation entails a threat, or opportunity.: 373 Optimism bias is a tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive events occurring...
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Pollyanna principle (category Optimism)
land Coping Cornucopianism Confirmation bias Depressive realism Illusory superiority Negativity bias Optimism bias Overconfidence effect Positivity offset...
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Sunk cost (redirect from Plan continuation bias)
Behavioural Insights Team (July 2017). "A review of optimism bias, planning fallacy, sunk cost bias and groupthink in project delivery and organisational...
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programming Optimism bias – Type of cognitive bias Parkinson's law – Adage that work expands to fill its available time Planning fallacy – Cognitive bias of underestimating...
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Positivity effect (redirect from Positivity bias)
study show that the optimism bias in future-oriented thinking fulfils a self-improvement purpose while also suggesting this bias probably reflects a common...
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Wishful thinking (category Cognitive biases)
neural circuitry, human cognition and emotion, types of bias, procrastination, motivation, optimism, attention and environment. This concept has been examined...
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underpinnings of human optimism, work that has been published in numerous eminent journals. In her books The Optimism Bias and The Science of Optimism, she describes...
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