Paper Title
The Effects of Temporal Distance and Goal Types on the Optimistic Bias of Future Goal Attainment

Abstract
This study aimed at investigating how predictions of future goal attainment vary by temporal distance, goal type, and personality characteristics. Total 421 participants rated the likelihood of achieving the two goal types at one, ten, and twenty years later. The goal attainment estimates were foundgreater for the distant than for the near future. The predictive values for either goal type were greater for high than for low self-efficacy group, whereas the values for public goals, not private goals, were greater for high than for low social responsibility group. Keywords - Optimistic bias,Future Goal Attainment, Temporal Distance, Goal Type, Self-Efficacy, Social Responsibility.