Elicitation is the process of extracting expert knowledge about some unknown quantity or
quantities, and formulating that information as a probability distribution. Elicitation is …

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 …

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others? This new edition of The
Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research …

Abstract The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index has beendesigned as a new barometer of
Australians' satisfaction with their lives, and life inAustralia. It is based on, and develops …

Like the inhabitants of Garrison Keillor's (1985) fictional community of Lake Wobegon, most
people appear to believe that their skills and abilities are above average. A series of studies …

People tend to believe that they are better than others. This claim is firmly supported by the
large body of research that has investigated" self-serv ing" or" self-enhancing" biases (eg …

Background The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003 and the subsequent
emergence of the H5N1 virus have highlighted the threat of a global pandemic influenza …

Annotation From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media
continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this …

People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and
moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views …

Biases in social comparative judgments, such as those illustrated by above-average and
comparative-optimism effects, are often regarded as products of motivated reasoning (eg …