![]() ![]() Years, similar to the brain growth spurt in early childhood – both precursors of preparation for Neuroscience has documented the substantive growth of frontal lobe gray matter during the adolescent JD, PhD, Adjunct Professor Psychology Department, Southern Methodist UniversityĪnd President-Nestor Consultants, Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA WELFARE REFORM, AND EDUCATION REMEDIATION We also put forward empirical and theoretical arguments for considering unbiased individuals as a separate phenomenon in the domain of self–others comparisons.ĪDOLESCENT FRONTAL LOBE BRAIN DEVELOPMENT:ĪND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION AND IMPLICATIONSįOR JUVENILE COURT CASE DISPOSITION, CHILD We discuss the interpretation and implication of our results in the context of the academic and lay-persons' views on rationality. In Study 3 we also replicated the effect and found that realists hold more centric views on the trade-offs between threats from getting vaccinated and getting ill. In Study 2 we replicated the main effect and found no evidence for differences in psychological control between biased and unbiased groups. In two pre-registered, follow-up studies, we aimed at testing the reproducibility of this phenomenon and its explanations. In a mini meta-analysis of six studies (Study 1), we discovered that unbiased individuals have lower vaccine intention than biased ones. However, in previous and even the most recent studies, researchers often neglected to consider unbiased individuals and inspect the differences between biased and unbiased individuals. ![]() This is known as comparative optimism and it has been one of the reproducible effects in social psychology. Within different populations and at various stages of the pandemic, it has been demonstrated that individuals believe they are less likely to become infected than their average peer. ![]()
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