A pessimistic view of optimistic belief updating

Received academic wisdom holds that human judgment is characterized by unrealistic optimism, the tendency to underestimate the likelihood of negative events and overestimate the likelihood of positive events. With recent questions being raised over the degree to which the majority of this research g...

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Main Authors: Shah, P, Harris, AJL, Bird, G, Catmur, C, Hahn, U
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016