Unique Invulnerability as Applied to Personal Mortality: The Reports of Its Demise are Exaggerated.

Snyder, C. R.

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ERIC Number: EJ605782

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1999

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Unique Invulnerability as Applied to Personal Mortality: The Reports of Its Demise are Exaggerated.

Snyder, C. R.

Teaching of Psychology, v26 n3 p217-19 1999

Responds to the article "Students Do Not Overestimate their Life Expectancy: An Alternative Demonstration of Unique Invulnerability" suggesting that students will show optimistic biasing in regard to self-referential information. Discusses a class exercise that focuses on the age of death and is used to see if optimistic biasing occurs. (CMK)

Descriptors: Bias, Family (Sociological Unit), Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Prediction, Psychology, Relevance (Education), Sex Differences, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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