Unrealistic optimism about future life events

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1980, Pages 806-820

  Weinstein, Neil D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

knowledge of unrealistic optimism of others, prediction of occurrence for self ; others, college students; positive vs negative future events

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945701095     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.39.5.806     Document Type: Article

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