**See Also:** [[CPB/ALL PAGES/Notes/Cognitive Bias|Cognitive Bias]]. > [!QUOTE] From [Optimism bias - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias): > Optimism bias is the tendency of an individual to overestimate the likelihood of positive events and underestimate that of negative events. - [[Har13]] claims that a slight optimism bias can be beneficial by keeping them hopeful for the future, and therefore keep working towards it more than individuals without such a bias. %% #todo look up research on this. %% - It seems this supports the importance of moderation in all things: a little bias can be good. - Can a little bias also be "not bad"? - It kind of follows that negative biases should always be bad. - But perhaps a small amount of negative bias makes one more wary, which can help survival too. %% #expand This chunk should be its own note. %% %% Notes to absorb ```dataview list from [[]] and !"Templates" and !outgoing([[]]) sort file.name asc ``` %%