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Illusion and well‐being: A social psychological perspective on mental health
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Many prominent theorists have argued that accurate perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential for mental health. Yet considerable research evidence suggests that overly positive selfevaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism are characteristic of normal human thought. Moreover, these illusions appear to promote other criteria of mental health, including the ability to care about others, the ability to be happy or contented, and the ability to engage in productive and creative work. These strategies may succeed, in large part, because both the social world and cognitive-processing mechanisms impose filters on incoming information that distort it in a positive direction; negative information may be isolated and represented in as unthreatening a manner as possible. These positive illusions may be especially useful when an individual receives negative feedback or is otherwise threatened and may be especially adaptive under these circumstances. Decades of psychological wisdom have established contact with reality as a hallmark of mental health. In this view, the wcU-adjusted person is thought to engage in accurate reality testing, whereas the individual whose vision is clouded by illusion is regarded as vulnerable to, if not already a victim of, mental illness. Despite its plausibility, this viewpoint is increasingly difficult to maintain (cf. Lazarus, 1983). A substantial amount of research testifies to the prevalence of illusion in normal human
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- Authors
- Taylor, S. E., & Brown, J. D.
- ORCID
- Brown, Jonathon D.
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1988
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 193-210
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
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- W2171975196
- Semantic Scholar
- 3331a6d8daa55975dfab8e35f91b42157eb1a2e8
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- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 00311)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- positive illusions, mental health, well-being, self-perception, optimism, perceived control, reality testing, cognitive distortions
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Attitude to Health, Humans, Illusions, Reality Testing, Self Concept
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Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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