@inbook{9c0c71ba451c4d5ba5e86bfb1ef5dd2e,
title = "Autism, optimism and positive events: Evidence against a general optimistic bias",
abstract = "The conclusion that people are optimistic concerning personal risk does not have a sound evidential basis. Following Harris and Hahn's (2011) critique of unrealistic optimism research, we consider the evidence from a recent series of high profile neuroscience papers. We demonstrate that the methods used are fundamentally flawed. A simulation and an empirical comparison of autism spectrum condition participants with typical adults confirm that we have learnt nothing about optimism from these studies.",
keywords = "belief updating, human rationality, Optimism, statistical artifact",
author = "Harris, {Adam J.L.} and Punit Shah and Caroline Catmur and Geoffrey Bird and Ulrike Hahn",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} CogSci 2013.All rights reserved.; 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics, CogSci 2013 ; Conference date: 31-07-2013 Through 03-08-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
series = "Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "555--560",
editor = "Markus Knauff and Natalie Sebanz and Michael Pauen and Ipke Wachsmuth",
booktitle = "Cooperative Minds",
}