2018-02-15

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BrainCraft

Surprise! You're more optimistic than you think.

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BrainCraft was created by Vanessa Hill (@nessyhill) and is brought to you by PBS Digital Studios. Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.

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Written by Bahar Gholipour

Produced, Edited and Hosted by Vanessa Hill

Filming by Dominique Taylor

Animations by Jade Tan-Holmes

REFERENCES 📚

Sharot, T. (2011). The optimism bias. Current biology, 21(23), R941-R945. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211011912

Strunk, D. R., Lopez, H., & DeRubeis, R. J. (2006). Depressive symptoms are associated with unrealistic negative predictions of future life events. Behaviour research and therapy, 44(6), 861-882. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796705001476

Sharot, T., Korn, C. W., & Dolan, R. J. (2011). How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality. Nature neuroscience, 14(11), 1475. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204264/

Odds of dying: http://www.nsc.org/learn/safety-knowledge/Pages/injury-facts-chart.aspx and http://driveithome.org/201801-andy-pilgrim-distracted-driving