Unrealistic optimism about future life events
Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life events. In Study 1, over 258 college students estimated how much their own chance of experiencing 42 events differed from the chances of their classmates. Overall, they rated their own chances to be si...
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