Depressive realism – Hypothesis about depression

Illusion of control – False belief in an ability to control events

Illusory superiority – Overestimating one's abilities and qualifications; a cognitive bias

Normalcy bias – Disbelief or minimization in response to threat warnings

Nothing to hide argument – Argument that one does not need privacy unless they are doing something wrong

Negativity bias – Tendency to give more importance to negative experiences

Positive illusions – Unrealistically favorable attitudes

Reference class forecasting – Method of predicting the future

Self-serving bias – Distortion to enhance self-esteem, or to see oneself overly favorably

Toxic positivity – Construct in psychology

Wishful thinking – Formation of beliefs based on what might be pleasing to imagine

List of cognitive biases – Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment

optimism bias

optimism bias

optimism bias

optimism bias