Automatic Optimism: The Affective Basis of Judgments About the Likelihood of Future Events

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-200

  Lench, Heather C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affect heuristic; automatic optimism; desirability bias; risk judgments; unrealistic optimism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REALITY TESTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOLITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65749096693     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015380     Document Type: Article

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