For more information on the published version, visit SAGE's Website., Shepperd, James A., Marie Helweg-Larsen, and Ligia Ortega. Are Comparative Risk Judgments Consistent Across Time and Events? Personality and Social...
The optimistic bias is defined as judging one's own risk as less than the risk of others. Researchers have identified numerous personal and situational factors that moderate the extent to which people display the bias. It is...
