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You assume you are safer than everyone else.
A 1980 study by Neil D. Weinstein published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that individuals consistently rate their own risks for negative events as lower than the risk faced by others.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Your sense of invulnerability is a defense mechanism.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Weinstein, 1980, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
- What the check found
- The core psychological finding is accurate and widely accepted, but the provided citation is incorrect, which is a common error in academic referencing.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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