Unrealistic comparative optimism: An unsuccessful search for evidence of a genuinely motivational bias.

PLoS One · 2017 · PMC5344342 · PMID 28278200

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However, there was a marginally significant main effect of severity, in that participants in the negative condition gave higher ratings (M negative = 2.49, SD = 1.71) than participants in the neutral condition, (M neutral = 2.04, SD = 1.72), F (1,196) = 3.47, p = .06.

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