ArticleJournal of applied research in memory and cognition2021
"It Won't Happen to Us": Unrealistic Optimism Affects COVID-19 Risk Assessments and Attitudes Regarding Protective Behaviour.
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- Experiences of being at high-risk during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on emotional well-being and daily life in people with chronic conditions: a qualitative study.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Article
- Do unbiased people act more rationally?-The case of comparative realism and vaccine intention.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- I love you too much to keep social distance: Closeness in relationships and (dis)engagement in preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of applied social psychology · 2022Article
- Unrealistic pessimism and obsessive-compulsive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Two longitudinal studies.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Conspiracy claims and secret intentions as predictors of psychological coping and vaccine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Binge drinking in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Prevalence, correlates and association with preventive behaviors.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Temporal aspects of unrealistic optimism and robustness of this bias: A longitudinal study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
People generally believe that their own future will be better than the one of comparable others. Robust evidence documents such unrealistic optimism in many domains of life. Here, we examine how unrealistic optimism may affect people's risk assessments of COVID-19 infection as well as their attitudes regarding behaviours intended to protect against contagion. In two studies conducted in the USA (
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