TY - GEN
T1 - Naive optimism and decision making
AU - Zakay, Dan
PY - 1990/11
Y1 - 1990/11
N2 - Naive optimism is defined as the belief that good outcomes are more likely and bad outcomes are less likely to happen to oneself than they are to other people. Three determinants that influence the intensity of naive optimism, and the pattern of its interaction, are defined. These determinants are the value of an event's outcomes, the perceived controllability of an event, and the degree of affinity between a decision maker and the target figure who is actually affected by the outcomes of an event. The implications of these findings in regard to decision-making processes are discussed.
AB - Naive optimism is defined as the belief that good outcomes are more likely and bad outcomes are less likely to happen to oneself than they are to other people. Three determinants that influence the intensity of naive optimism, and the pattern of its interaction, are defined. These determinants are the value of an event's outcomes, the perceived controllability of an event, and the degree of affinity between a decision maker and the target figure who is actually affected by the outcomes of an event. The implications of these findings in regard to decision-making processes are discussed.
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AN - SCOPUS:0025514881
SN - 0879425970
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 889
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
PB - Publ by IEEE
T2 - 1990 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Y2 - 4 November 1990 through 7 November 1990
ER -