Surrogate endpoints: wishful thinking or reality?

Personalized medicine in myelodysplastic syndromes: wishful thinking or already clinical reality?

Development of wishful thinking in 7 to 14 year-old Iranian children and adolescences

Several studies have investigated wishful thinking or desirability bias in children and adults, while no research has been conducted on the evolution of wishful thinking in childhood and adolescence. The present research aims to investigate the evolution of wishful thinking in Iranian children and adolescents aged 7-14. This study is an evolutional one with a cross- sectional method. The statis...

NOVASTOR WHITE PAPER Wishful Thinking vs. Reality in Regards to Virtual Backup and Restore Environments

Measuring Wishful Thinking: the Development and Validation of a New Scale

Title of Document: MEASURING WISHFUL THINKING: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A NEW SCALE Angela H. Eichelberger, Ph.D., 2007 Directed by: Professor Harold Sigall, Department of Psychology This dissertation describes the development and validation of a 10-item scale measuring individual differences in wishful thinking, or the degree to which individuals’ desires bias their judgments. A study...

A Framework for Understanding Wishful Thinking

While the science and values literature has seen recurrent concerns about wishful thinking, there have been few efforts to characterize this phenomenon. Based on a review of varieties of wishful thinking involved in climate skepticism, we argue that instances of wishful thinking can be fruitfully characterized in terms of the mechanisms that generate them and the problems associated with them. ...