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Google Scholar WEINSTEIN, N.D., UNREALISTIC OPTIMISM ABOUT FUTURE LIFE EVENTS, JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 39 : 806 (1980).

Behavioural risk factors ,Rehabilitation programmes weinstein, n.d., unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health-problems - conclusions from a community-wide sample, journal of behavioral medicine 10: 481 (1987).

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He also argued that this selectivity is compounded by egocentrism – individuals tend to ignore others’ risk-decreasing behaviour (‘My friends all practise safe sex, but that’s irrelevant’) and focus on the risk-increasing behaviour of those around them (‘My friends sometimes drive too fast’). He claimed that we ignore our own risk-increasing behaviour (‘I may not always practise safe sex, but that’s not important’) and focus primarily on our risk-reducing behaviour (‘At least I don’t inject drugs’). In an attempt to explain why individuals’ assessment of their risk may go wrong, and why people are unrealistically optimistic, Weinstein (1983) argued that individuals show selective focus. These factors suggest that our perception of our own risk is not a rational process.

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the belief that the problem is preventable by individual action ģ. lack of personal experience with the problem Ģ. Weinstein (1987) described four cognitive factors that contribute to unrealistic optimism:ġ. Clearly, this would not be true of everyone, so Weinstein called this phenomenon unrealistic optimism. He gave participants a list of health problems to examine and then asked: ‘Compared to other people of your age and sex, are your chances of getting greater than, about the same as, or less than theirs?’ Most participants believed that they were less likely to experience the health problem. The top 12 companies and the amount each spent on advertising in billions of dollars are as follows:Ĭompany Advertising ($ billions) Company Advertising ($ billions) Procter & Gamble $ 5.00 American Express $ 2.19 Comcast 3.08 General Motors 2.15 AT&T 2.91 Toyota 2.09 Ford 2.56 Fiat Chrysler 1.97 Verizon 2.44 Walt Disney Company 1.96 L’Oreal 2.34 J.P. Morgan 1.88 \begin & 1.88Ĭompany Procter & Gamble Comcast AT&T Ford Verizon L’Oreal Advertising ($ billions) $5.00 3.08 2.91 2.56 2.44 2.34 Company American Express General Motors Toyota Fiat Chrysler Walt Disney Company J.P. Morgan Advertising ($ billions) $2.19 2.15 2.09 1.97 1.96 1.88 ī.Weinstein (1983, 1984) suggested that one of the reasons we continue to practice unhealthy behaviours is our inaccurate perceptions of risk and susceptibility. In second place was Comcast, which spent $ 3.08 \$ 3.08 $3.08 billion (Business Insider website). In 2014, Procter & Gamble spent more than any other company, a whopping $ 5 \$ 5 $5 billion. Which companies spend the most money on advertising?īusiness Insider maintains a list of the top-spending companies.