And most universities fail to make these distinctions clear in "public-facing profiles," the authors observe, which "exacerbate[s]" postdocs' optimistic tendency to assume that the term "professor" always means a traditional tenure-track position, when it often denotes a job with much less security.
Even in the presence of negative information, healthy human beings display an optimistic tendency when thinking of past success and future chances, giving a positive bias to everyday's cognition.
Obviously, the rise in the use of health care resources for patients with multiple diseases has consequences for the current and future burden of patients with multimorbidity in general practice, but the finding that per disease the number of contacts is lower may imply a more optimistic tendency.
An OPTIMISTIC attitude The tendency to look on the positive side of events or conditions helps you keep a hopeful outlook.
Trusting social cues involves comparison and conformity influences, and can enhance optimistic bias (the tendency to view oneself less likely to experience negative events but more likely to experience positive events) in personal risk estimates [56], thereby reducing perceived Susceptibility.
Although you are optimistic: given your warmongering tendencies, I don't reckon any form of data storage will need to last more than 200 years to outlive you all.
Worthiness and philanthropy were the twin engines of the ethos of Mass Observation, which was very much an organisation of its time: left-leaning and optimistic, but with a tendency to view the working class as a kind of exotic species to be studied under an anthropological microscope.
Optimistic bias is our tendency unrealistically to underestimate our risk of experiencing unlucky outcomes, relative to our peers.
"When people are more optimistic," Elliot observed, "the tendency is look forward towards the future and to what's coming, rather than looking in the rearview mirror".
Moving average methods for this data have high DPs, negligible observed tendency toward optimistic DP claims, and achieved an actual false alarm rate of slightly less than the nominal rate of one per year.
