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Direct linkHarris, Adam J. L.; Hahn, Ulrike – Psychological Review, 2011
A robust finding in social psychology is that people judge negative events as less likely to happen to themselves than to the average person, a behavior interpreted as showing that people are "unrealistically optimistic" in their judgments of risk concerning future life events. However, we demonstrate how unbiased responses can result in data…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Attitudes, World Views, Risk
