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Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID-19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Comparative optimism in the spontaneous generation of future life-events.

scientific article published on 24 August 2007

Desire for information about drugs: a survey of the need for information in psychiatric in-patients

scientific article published in February 2005

Distortions in reports of health behaviors: The time span effect and illusory supefuority

article

Does mood really influence comparative optimism? Tracking an elusive effect.

scientific article

How probable isprobably? It depends on whom you're talking about

Less is more? Think again! A cognitive fluency-based more-less asymmetry in comparative communication

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Mastery pleasure versus mere ownership: A quasi-experimental cross-cultural and cross-alphabetical test of the name letter effect

Overvaluation of Own Attributes: Mere Ownership or Subjective Frequency?

article published in 1993

Positivity Bias

article

Self-Favoring Biases, Self-Presentation, and the Self-Other Asymmetry in Social Comparison

article

Self-enhancement and Superiority Biases in Social Comparison

article

The "extent of information desired"-scale in psychiatric in-patients: a behavioural approach.

scientific article published on 23 February 2006

The effect of category focus at encoding on category frequency estimation strategies.

scientific article published on January 2006

The hubris hypothesis: you can self-enhance, but you'd better not show it.

scientific article published in October 2012

The name letter effect: Attachment to self or primacy of own name writing?

What’s really in a Name-Letter Effect? Name-letter preferences as indirect measures of self-esteem

Why Self-enhancement Provokes Dislike: The Hubris Hypothesis and the Aversiveness of Explicit Self-superiority Claims

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