The Optimism Bias

Sharot, T. (2011). The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain. Pantheon Books.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2011

Link

https://archive.org/details/optimismbiaswhyw0000sharmatched

Cited from

psychology

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Primes

• Optimism Bias
  • The construct was systematized by Neil Weinstein (1980) in his foundational work Unrealistic Optimism About Future Life Events and has been extensively investigated by Tali Sharot and colleagues using neuroimaging and computational models

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