Note: Funding Statement: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.ĭeclaration of Interests: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.Įthics Approval Statement: This project was approved by the CEPH / FGV review board. Theoretical contributions and substantive implications to health risk research and policy are discussed. Egocentrism, but not self-enhancement and/or better-than-average effects, helps to explain the phenomenon.
Critically, we show that prompting people to think about a precautionary behavior they often perform (i.e., mask wearing) magnifies this preexisting tendency. But on the other hand, too much optimism can have negative effects. People are considered unrealistically optimistic if they predict that a personal future outcome will be more favorable than that suggested by a relevant. Across two preregistered, high-powered experiments (N = 4,707), we document a generalized unrealistic optimism about the health risks associated with COVID-19. We address this gap by examining whether and how self-protective behaviors influence unrealistic optimism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. How often have you been told to look at the bright side of a. However, it is a counterintuitive concept that encourages unrealistic optimism and has the potential to harm a person’s mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. Where the majority are less at risk than the. 482), for example, grouped risk responses greater than 10 into a single category because of the low number of responses in these categories ). (2003) showed that optimistic people who make statements such as, my future is more promising than that of others have low social. While research has consistently shown that feeling unrealistically optimistic about future events influences the adoption of self-protective behaviors, much less is known about the opposite relationship. Toxic positivity has become an online trend that promotes a ‘good vibes only,’ approach in life. Such events are exactly those most frequently studied in unrealistic optimism research (Welkenhuysen, Evers-Kieboom, Decruyenaere, & van den Berghe (p.
People tend to believe they are more (less) likely to experience positive (negative) outcomes than similar others.
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