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...

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...

Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral...

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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Behavioural Insights Team (July 2017). "A review of optimism bias, planning fallacy, sunk cost bias and groupthink in project delivery and organisational...

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...

study show that the optimism bias in future-oriented thinking fulfils a self-improvement purpose while also suggesting this bias probably reflects a common...

neural circuitry, human cognition and emotion, types of bias, procrastination, motivation, optimism, attention and environment. This concept has been examined...

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...