Dispositional, Unrealistic, and Comparative Optimism: Differential Relations with the Knowledge and Processing of Risk Information and Beliefs about Personal Risk

By Nathan Radcliffe, William M. P. Klein. 2002

319 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Applied Psychology

1. R. Gifford
2. Tara L. Haynes
3. Robert H. Stupnisky
4. R. Perry
5. L. Scannell
6. Florian G. Kaiser
7. Lia M. Daniels
8. Robert J. Pidduck

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Nathan C. Hall
2. Robert H. Stupnisky
3. Tara L. Haynes
4. Lia M. Daniels
5. J. Chipperfield
6. Reinhard Pekrun
7. R. Perry
8. R. Clifton

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. R. Gifford
2. L. Scannell
3. Marino Bonaiuto
4. Ferdinando Fornara
5. Kalevi Korpela
6. S. D. Dominicis
7. Tara L. Haynes
8. Florian G. Kaiser

Citations in the corpus

• Place attachment and natural hazard risk: Research review and agenda (2016, background): “Thus, it is plausible that people showing strong place attachment tend to avoid coping with environmental risks (De Dominicis et al., 2015; Gifford et al., 2009; Radcliffe & Klein, 2002).”
• ENHANCING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CONTROL IN ACHIEVEMENT SETTINGS THROUGH WRITING-BASED ATTRIBUTIONAL RETRAINING (2006, background): “theoretical importance in Rothbaum et al.’s (1982) original model.”
• A Review of Attributional Retraining Treatments: Fostering Engagement and Persistence in Vulnerable College Students (2009, background): “Over-optimism is defined as unrealistically high expectations that do not necessarily correspond to the realities of an objective situation (Radcliffe and Klein, 2002).”
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior (2021, background): “Dispositional beliefs can take several forms including, for example, as dispositional optimism, which is defined as “the generalized positive expectancy that one will experience good outcomes” (Radcliffe & Klein, 2002, p. 837).”
• We are at risk, and so what? Place attachment, environmental risk perceptions and preventive coping behaviours (2015, background): “However, we predicted that place attachment may negatively moderate this positive relation, according to the possible effect of place-specific biases, such as the optimistic bias applied to environmental risk perception (Gifford et al., 2009; Radcliffe & Klein, 2002; Schultz et al., 2014).”
• Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study (2009, background): “Comparative optimism is a useful construct for identifying biases because sub-mean risk assessments by the majority of a sample necessarily indicates bias: not everyone can be less at risk than most others ( Radcliffe & Klein, 2002 ).”