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POSITIVE BIAS [11 records]

Record 1 2025-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Optimism bias describes people's tendency to overestimate their likelihood of experiencing positive events and underestimate their likelihood of experiencing negative events in the future.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Comportement humain
CONT

Le biais d'optimisme conduit les individus à croire qu'ils sont moins susceptibles de vivre des expériences négatives que les autres.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

When you read the news, do you find yourself drawn to the more depressing articles? As humans, we tend to be impacted much more by negative events than by positive ones. This negativity bias can influence how we feel, think, and act, and can have some less-than-desirable effects on our psychological state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Le biais de négativité est un biais cognitif qui fait que les événements négatifs ont un impact plus important sur notre état psychologique que les événements positifs. Le biais de négativité se produit même lorsque les événements négatifs et les événements positifs sont de même ampleur, ce qui signifie que nous ressentons les événements négatifs plus intensément.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Statistics
  • Modelling (Mathematics)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

A lognormal error is usually assumed in the traditional stock–recruitment(SR) analysis.... a positive bias results when [a] SR model with [a] lognormal error is used for fish recruitment prediction. Not only is this bias exponentially dependent on the structure of the model' s residual variance and the historical SR data, it is also dependent on the specific value of spawner biomass used.... a bias correction that is asymptotically unbiased with a finite-sample biasthat is practically zero [is then derived]. Data from two Pacific salmon populations, southeast Alaska pink salmon... and Chilko Lake sockeye salmon... are used to demonstrate this approach. The results show that the relative bias is about 10% for a spawning biomass within the historical range and that the bias is substantial outside that data range. However, with the proposed bias correction, the bias is negligible both within(<0. 1%) and outside of(<0. 3%) the data range.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Statistique
  • Modélisation (Mathématique)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 4 2021-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • News and Journalism (General)
  • Social Psychology
CONT

In recent years, proponents of "constructive journalism" in Europe(a sister practice to solutions journalism that puts more emphasis on the positive psychological effects of solutions-oriented coverage) have highlighted [the sociologist's] concerns around the negative bias of news.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Information et journalisme (Généralités)
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Le journalisme constructif est basé, entre autres, sur des principes de psychologie positive et il a pour objectif d'«améliorer le bien-être individuel et social» [...] tout en produisant des nouvelles d'intérêt public. [Cette approche du journalisme] cherche à diffuser des reportages, dont les sujets peuvent être positifs ou négatifs, qui ne favorisent pas, par exemple, l'escalade de conflits entre partis opposés, la victimisation ou la diabolisation de protagonistes, tout en employant une approche qui permet d'envisager l'amélioration de la situation exposée (optimisme) ou d'entrevoir des pistes de solutions.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Work and Production
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

The process of splitting a large job into small tasks so it can be distributed to many people.

OBS

This is especially useful for situations where people perform better than machines or algorithms, such as when it is important to detect context, irony, positive or negative bias, or [to] accurately recognise what is in an image or video.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et production
  • Travail et emploi
Key term(s)
  • division du travail en micro-tâches

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

The modulatory influence of an affective state, for example depression, that may either enhance or repress the recall of memory, or may modify the content of what is remembered.

CONT

Memory bias may either enhance or inhibit the recall of memory, or they may alter the content of what is reported from memory. For instance, individuals who are currently suffering from an episode of major depression often have better memory for information of negative valence, compared with that of neutral or positive valence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
DEF

Altération ou rappel sélectif de souvenirs en faveur d'états affectifs particuliers.

CONT

Les biais de mémoire dans l'anxiété. L'anxiété induit des troubles de l'attention qui se manifestent notamment par un biais attentionnel pour les stimuli à connotation menaçante ou en rapport avec les préoccupations anxieuses du patient.

Spanish

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Record 7 1998-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
DEF

The extreme values of the bias error(positive and negative) permitted by the regulations.

OBS

maximum permissible bias error: An instrument is called "free from bias" (within the permitted limits) when the maximum permissible bias errors are not exceeded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
DEF

Valeurs extrêmes de l'erreur de justesse (en plus et en moins) tolérées par les règlements.

OBS

L'instrument est appelé «juste» (dans les limites tolérées) lorsque les erreurs maximales tolérées de justesse ne sont pas dépassées.

OBS

erreurs maximales tolérées de justesse : recommandation internationale de la Troisième Conférence Internationale de Métrologie Légale, 1968.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

The tendency to agree with any persuasive message.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

Tendance à être d'accord avec n'importe quel message persuasif.

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
OBS

References: "Case Study: Revised Analyses and Their Impact on a Numerical Forecast over theEastern Pacific OCean", E Kirkwood, & Cloud and Precipitation Verification of CMC Subjective Prognosis", G Pellerin, in the Monthly Review, V II, No 12.

Key term(s)
  • positive bias center

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie

Spanish

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Record 10 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Investment
OBS

(...) positive interest is caused by two factors :(1) a vertical bias of the AB production-possibility frontier between present and future consumption goods, and(2) a general vertical bias of the typical consumer's indifference contours between present and future consumption goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry
CONT

a small positive bias pushes holes away from the surface

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques
CONT

une tension positive éloigne les lacunes de la surface

OBS

multiplexage

Spanish

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