Optimism Bias

Examples

• People consistently believe they're less likely than others to develop health problems like heart disease or cancer, even when their risk factors are identical or worse than average.
• Underestimating the time to complete a project.
• Gamblers overestimate their probability of winning and underestimate their likelihood of developing gambling problems.

All cognitive biases

• Confirmation Bias
• Availability Heuristic
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Anchoring Bias
• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Negativity Bias
• Hindsight Bias
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• In-Group Bias
• Optimism Bias
• Framing Effect
• Self-Serving Bias
• Halo Effect
• Recency Bias
• Survivorship Bias
• Implicit Bias