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Intellectual ability, rationality, and intuitiveness as predictors of warranted and unwarranted optimism for future life events
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Intellectual ability, rationality, and intuitiveness as predictors of warranted and unwarranted optimism for future life events

Paul Klaczynski and James Fauth
Journal of youth and adolescence, Vol.25(6), pp.755-773
01/12/1996
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537452

Abstract

Bias College students Emotions Optimism Probability Psychology Teenagers Young adults
Klaczynski and Fauth examined the social calculations involved in assessing one's life chances. Undergraduates estimated the probability that they would experience positive and negative life events and the probability that others would experience the same events.

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