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. 2014 Jun 19:5:624.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00624. eCollection 2014.

Belief in optimism might be more problematic than actual optimism

Michael M Roy¹

Affiliations

PMID: 24994995
PMCID: PMC4063292
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00624

Belief in optimism might be more problematic than actual optimism

Michael M Roy. Front Psychol. 2014.

. 2014 Jun 19:5:624.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00624. eCollection 2014.

Author

Michael M Roy¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, Elizabethtown College , Elizabethtown, PA, USA ; Department of Music, North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa.

PMID: 24994995
PMCID: PMC4063292
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00624

No abstract available

Keywords: bias; future; memory; optimism; prototype; time.

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