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When and why people are comparatively optimistic about future health risks: The role of direct and indirect comparison measures

Jason P. Rose Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jerry Suls Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
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Paul D. Windschitl Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Pages 475-483 | Received 30 Sep 2010, Accepted 12 Jan 2011, Published online: 12 Jul 2011

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Keith A. Edmonds, Jason P. Rose, Olivia G. Aspiras & Megh S. Kumar. (2022) Absolute and comparative risk assessments: evidence for the utility of incorporating internal comparisons into models of risk perception. Psychology & Health 37:11, pages 1414-1430.
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Andrew R. Smith, Paul D. Windschitl & Jason P. Rose. (2020) An integrated approach to biases in referent-specific judgments. Thinking & Reasoning 26:4, pages 581-614.
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Mihai Dricu, Dominik A. Moser & Tatjana Aue. (2022) Optimism bias and its relation to scenario valence, gender, sociality, and insecure attachment. Scientific Reports 12:1.
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Jason P. Rose & Keith A. Edmonds. (2021) Social Comparisons for Following Health Recommendations and Their Relation to Worry and Intentions During COVID-19. European Journal of Health Psychology 28:4, pages 141-151.
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Annette R Kaufman, Jenny E Twesten, Jerry Suls, Kevin D McCaul, Jamie S Ostroff, Rebecca A Ferrer, Noel T Brewer, Linda D Cameron, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Jennifer L Hay, Elyse R Park, Ellen Peters, David R Strong, Erika A Waters, Neil D Weinstein, Paul D Windschitl & William M P Klein. (2020) Measuring Cigarette Smoking Risk Perceptions. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 22:11, pages 1937-1945.
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Jason P. Rose & Olivia Aspiras. (2020) “To hope was to expect”: The impact of perspective taking and forecast type on wishful thinking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 33:4, pages 411-426.
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Mihai Dricu, Laura Kress & Tatjana Aue. 2020. Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders. Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders 41 70 .
Mihai Dricu, Stephanie Bührer, Fabienne Hesse, Cecily Eder, Andres Posada & Tatjana Aue. (2018) Warmth and competence predict overoptimistic beliefs for out-group but not in-group members. PLOS ONE 13:11, pages e0207670.
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Adam J.L. Harris. (2017) Understanding the coherence of the severity effect and optimism phenomena: Lessons from attention. Consciousness and Cognition 50, pages 30-44.
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Jason P. Rose, Olivia Aspiras, Erin Vogel, Heather Haught & Lindsay Roberts. (2017) Comparative Optimism and Event Skewness. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 30:2, pages 236-255.
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Paul D. Windschitl & Jillian O'Rourke Stuart. 2015. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making 431 455 .
Michael Edward Hall, Randall J. Bergman & Samantha Nivens. (2013) Worksite Health Promotion Program Participation. Health Promotion Practice 15:5, pages 768-776.
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Jerry Suls, Jason P. Rose, Paul D. Windschitl & Andrew R. Smith. (2013) Optimism Following a Tornado Disaster. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 39:5, pages 691-702.
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Jason P Rose. (2012) Debiasing comparative optimism and increasing worry for health outcomes. Journal of Health Psychology 17:8, pages 1121-1131.
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