Perceived Event Frequency and the Optimistic Bias: Evidence for a Two-Process Model of Personal Risk Judgments ☆

By Paul C. Price, Heather C. Pentecost, Rochelle D. Voth. 2002

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This is a post-print of an article published by Elsevier in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in May 2002, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jesp.2001.1509.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

• Children’s risk‐taking behaviour: implications for early childhood policy and practice (2006, background): “In addition, individual differences in personality factors such as sensation seeking—the desire for stimulating and novel experiences (Zuckerman, 1994 ), and the tendency to underestimate negative outcomes of behaviour, referred to as optimistic bias (Price et al , 2002 ), have also been examined”
• Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being (2007, background): “Optimistic bias is often examined in a unidirectional manner in terms of tendencies toward underestimating negative outcomes (e.g., McKenna, 1993; Price et al., 2002; Weinstein, 1980).”