Postulated 2 distinct processes through which leading questions may mislead people. When a questioner asks a leading question of a...
Chronically ill and disabled patients generally rate the value of their lives in a given health state more highly than...
Proposed that such assessments occur because the meaning of most characteristics is ambiguous, which allows people to use self-serving trait...
The job choice and post decision attitudes and behavior of 431 accounting students were studied. Data on the attractiveness of...
In 3 studies the authors compared the responses of self-rated happy and unhappy students in situations involving choice. In Study...
This article proposes that optimal psychological functioning is associated with a slight to moderate degree of distortion in one's perception...
A review of 2,647 studies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) yielded 476 potential candidates for a meta-analysis of predictors of...
The authors examined self-enhancing bias as a predictor of adjustment among individuals in or near the World Trade Center during...
Empirical studies (n = 39) that documented positive change following trauma and adversity (e.g., posttraumatic growth, stress‐related growth, perceived benefit,...
Proposes a theory of cognitive adaptation to threatening events. It is argued that the adjustment process centers around 3 themes:...