Wishful thinking bias

Wishful thinking bias Overestimating the probability of good things happening. Preferring a particular course of events because its outcome Is desired. 

It is difficult to know how seriously this phantasmagoria was intended. Bias there surely is, but is it the bias of wishful thinking or the bias of exhortation (7.2.2) I tend to believe that it is the latter. Yet the general Ibid., p. 117. 

Wishful thinking means to prefer a particular course of action because the outcome is desired. This bias is just one of many ways that emotions can distort judgment. ... 

The projection bias may have made it impossible for the treatment team to believe that the patient wanted what she had requested because it was not a choice they could imagine wanting themselves under the same circumstances. Wishful thinking may also have distorted the treatment team s judgment they wanted to make the decision that would allow the patient to live. 

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