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This article looks at the tendency to view oneself as invulnerable to experience negative life events. They suggest this goes hand in hand with the tendency to overestimate one's probability of experiencing postive life events. (Miami University of Ohio)
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social cognition, social psychology, age, culture, gender and self perception, behavior risk factors, cultural variation, health-compromising behaviors, high risk behavior, men's and women's risk perception of aids, optimistic bias in perceiving physical and mental health risks, smoking related illness
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- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)