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* We anticipate encountering more positive events in an upcoming month (such as receiving a gift or enjoying a movie) than we end up experiencing (see '''Figure 1''')<ref name=":0" />. | * We anticipate encountering more positive events in an upcoming month (such as receiving a gift or enjoying a movie) than we end up experiencing (see '''Figure 1''')<ref name=":0" />. | ||
These effects have been seen across age, culture, and species and has a significant societal impact on domains ranging from financial markets to physical and mental health<ref>'''How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans'''. Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 16, 21 August 2012, Pages 1477-1481. Accessed on 22nd August 2022 via: <nowiki>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212006458#bib4</nowiki></ref>. More recent evidence, suggests that most people have ingrained optimism biases and that too much optimism is detrimental to mental health<ref name=":0">'''Hope, optimism and delusion'''. Psychiatr Bull (2014). Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus1 2014 Apr; 38(2): 49–51. doi: 10.1192/pb.bp.113.044438. Accessed on 22nd August 2022, via https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115405/</ref>. | |||
Death is the ultimate risk for humans. However, we need to do it, however if we thought about it too much we would not do anything. This is why medicine is so expensive in US and has to be socially administered in the majority of civilised countries. The greatest product you can see someone is the fear of death. The optimism bias has to exists otherwise nothing would be done. | ''However, why does this cognitive bias exist?'' The evolutionary psychology reasoning infers that humans had to risk their lives every day. If they were acting on pure rationality our line would have starved to death. Death is the ultimate risk for humans. However, we need to do it, however if we thought about it too much we would not do anything. This is why medicine is so expensive in US and has to be socially administered in the majority of civilised countries. The greatest product you can see someone is the fear of death. The optimism bias has to exists otherwise nothing would be done. | ||
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