Forewarned by Paul Goodwin

Author:Paul Goodwin [Paul Goodwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785902994
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2017-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 We define unrealistic optimism as a tendency to overestimate the true probability of good events occurring and underestimate the probability of negative events happening.

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5 Sharot, T. (2011). The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, (New York: Vintage).

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9 Varki, A. (2009). ‘Human uniqueness and the denial of death’, Nature, 460, pp. 684–84. Also see: Sharot, T. (2011). The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, (New York: Vintage).

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18 Norem, J. K. (2001). ‘Defensive pessimism, optimism, and pessimism’, in Chang, E. (ed.), Optimism and Pessimism: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice, (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association), pp. 77–100.

19 Norem, J. K., & Burdzovic Andreas, J. (2006). ‘Understanding journeys: Individual growth analysis as a tool for studying individual differences in change over time’, in Ong, A. D., & van Dulmen, M. (eds.), Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology, (London: Oxford University Press) pp. 1036–58.

20 Norem, J. (2001). The Positive Power of Negative Thinking, (Cambridge, MA: Basic Books).

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