OPTIMISM BIAS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: THE ROLE OF THE RANGE OF IMPACT OF PRECAUTIONS

By J. Hatfield, R. Job. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Applied Psychology

1. R. Gifford
2. T. Milfont
3. Wesley Schultz
4. P. W. Schultz
5. Valdiney V. Gouveia
6. P. Schmuck
7. L. Scannell
8. Florian G. Kaiser

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. R. Gifford
2. T. Milfont
3. Valdiney V. Gouveia
4. P. W. Schultz
5. E. Sautkina
6. Kalevi Korpela
7. Florian G. Kaiser
8. P. Passafaro

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. R. Gifford
2. T. Milfont
3. P. W. Schultz
4. Wesley Schultz
5. Florian G. Kaiser
6. Valdiney V. Gouveia
7. P. Schmuck
8. L. Scannell

Citations in the corpus

• Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study (2009, background): “More recently, residents were found to believe that their local area was less likely to be affected by environmental hazards than the local area of their peers (Hatfield & Job, 2001).”
• Cross-Cultural Evidence for Spatial Bias in Beliefs About the Severity of Environmental Problems (2014, background): “Hatfield and Job (2001) also suggested that the slogan “think globally, act locally” may be misguided because thinking globally about existing problems may cause people not to accept personal vulnerability, and ultimately to inhibit proenvironmental behavior (see also Rabinovich, Morton, Postmes, &…”
• Perceptions of time in relation to climate change (2014, unknown): “59,60 However, optimism bias is not ubiquitous.”
• Place attachment and natural hazard risk: Research review and agenda (2016, background): “This spatial bias may arise, for example, by the local vs. global (Gifford et al., 2009) or the here vs. there (Hatfield & Job, 2001) comparison, functioning as a barrier preventing individuals from coping with local natural environment issues (Schultz et al., 2014).”
• The dragons of inaction: psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation. (2011, background): “…risks, such as their likelihood of a heart attack (e.g., Weinstein, 1980), but also their environmental risks, for example from radon exposure (Weinstein, Klotz, & Sandman, 1988), other environmental hazards (Hatfield & Job, 2001) or, in fact, 22 hazards (Pahl, Harris, Todd, & Rutter, 2005).”
• We are at risk, and so what? Place attachment, environmental risk perceptions and preventive coping behaviours (2015, background): “Hatfield and Job (2001) found that residents believe that their local area is less likely to be affected by environmental hazard than the local area of their peers.”