ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Does the Coronavirus Epidemic Take Advantage of Human Optimism Bias?
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Influencing factors of information security behavior among college students based on protection motivation theory: evidence from China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Large environmental changes reduce valence-dependent belief updating.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Facilitators and barriers of preventive behaviors against COVID-19 during Ramadan: A phenomenology of Indonesian adults.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- How German and Italian Laypeople Reason about Distributive Shortages during COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Whistling Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Optimism Bias and Political Beliefs in the United States.American politics research · 2022Article
- Perceived risk factors for severe Covid-19 symptoms and their association with health behaviours: Findings from the HEBECO study.Acta psychologica · 2022Article
- Are People Optimistically Biased about the Risk of COVID-19 Infection? Lessons from the First Wave of the Pandemic in Europe.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An active inference account of protective behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- The Epidemic Failure Cycle hypothesis: Towards understanding the global community's recent failures in responding to an epidemic.Journal of infection and public health · 2021Article
- "It Won't Happen to Us": Unrealistic Optimism Affects COVID-19 Risk Assessments and Attitudes Regarding Protective Behaviour.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2021Article
- Benchmarking SARS CoV-2 Infection in the Workplace to Support Continuity of Operations.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2021Article
- COVID-19 awareness, knowledge and perception towards digital health in an urban multi-ethnic Asian population.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Analysis of dynamic contact network of patients with COVID-19 in Shaanxi Province of China.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Components of Unrealistic Optimism of College Students: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Psychiatric Sequelae: An Urgent Need of Prevention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Perceived Vulnerability and Severity Predict Adherence to COVID-19 Protection Measures: The Mediating Role of Instrumental Coping.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Risk-taking unmasked: Using risky choice and temporal discounting to explain COVID-19 preventative behaviors.PloS one · 2021Article
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