Positive Illusions: Article Analysis

Davey also stated “If the TV program generates negative mood experiences (e.g. anxiety, sadness, anger, disgust), then these experiences will affect how you interpret events in your own life, what types of memories you recall, and how much you will worry about events in your own life.”
In the article “Positive Illusions and Well-Being Revisited Separating Fact from Fiction”, Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathon D. Brown classified people who are considered having positive illusions into three types. Taylor and Brown wrote that “(a) They view themselves in unrealistically positive terms; (b) they believe they have greater control over environmental events than is actually the case; and (c) they hold views of the future that are more rosy than base-rate
data can justify”