Article: Youth perceptions of their school violence risks.

Article: Third-person perception about domestic violence ...
North American Journal of Psychology;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... yielding instead first-person perception. The study contributes ... linking third/first-person perception to optimistic bias and extends the behavioral component of person-perception research by testing a relationship ...

Article: Optimistic bias among potential perpetrators and ...
Adolescence;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... to believe it can happen to them. Optimistic bias (Weinstein, 1980) provides a useful ... theoretical framework for this dilemma. Optimistic bias is relevant to health-risk perception ... the first of its type to integrate optimistic bias into its curriculum. Optimistic ...

Article: Optimistic bias and perceived control among ...
Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... susceptibility to disease. In general, optimistic bias has been shown to increase with greater ... answered a questionnaire that examined optimistic bias, perceived control over smoking ... control would correspond with greater optimistic bias. It was also hypothesized that factors ...

Article: Optimistic bias: what you think, what you know, or ...
North American Journal of Psychology;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... was my informal personal introduction to optimistic bias. Simply stated, optimistic bias (Weinstein, 1980) is the perception ... me." Recent studies illustrate that optimistic bias can appear anywhere: Adults in the U ...

Article: Optimistic bias among potential perpetrators and ...
Youth Studies Australia;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... To investigate the link between optimistic bias and youth violence, 387 high school ... contained items measuring participants' optimistic bias related to being a future victim or ... and self-efficacy. Significant optimistic bias was identified for both future victimisation ...

Article: References.(Understanding the Third-Person Effect)(Bibliography)
Communication Research Trends;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 8(2), 142-162. Chapin, J. R. (2000). Third-person perception and optimistic bias among urban minority at-risk youth. Communication Research, 27(1), 51-81. Cho, H., & ...

Article: Social cognition: Categorical person perception.
British Journal of Psychology;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... stereotypes) to streamline the person perception process. A debate that has dominated ... automaticity of category activation in person perception. But then, the people became terribly ... judgment and decision-making, and person perception. In each of these areas, moreover ...