Pessimism bias

Pessimism bias can be kind of contribute to anxiety a lot, since it’s the tendency to overestimate a negative thing happening in a scenario and underestimate a positive thing happening. So my personal example is I wanted to join a cosplay contest but I truly thought it was a bad idea, I came up with all these awful scenarios about what would happen. It wasnt the normal thought of I’m not gonna win because I did think that but it went further. I thought “I’m gonna fall on stage”, “people are gonna boo at me or no one gonna cheer” and “My whole cosplay will fall apart on stage and everyone will laugh”. I only started thinking positively when a cosplay influencer reached out and gave me some encouragement. I had met them at a convention and they saw my story about thinking about doing the contest and they encouraged me to do it. I did end up doing it and I got first in horror but I never thought that because of my pessimism bias. So has pessimism bias ever affected you?

 

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