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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

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Back-Translation for Cross-Cultural Research

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Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.

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The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts.

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Unrealistic optimism about future life events.

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Measurement and Control of Response Bias

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Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes

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The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history.

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Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems: Conclusions from a community-wide sample

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Global self-evaluation as determined by the desirability and controllability of trait adjectives.

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Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems

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Positive illusions: creative self-deception and the healthy mind

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Optimism, coping, psychological distress, and high-risk sexual behavior among men at risk for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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Do positive illusions foster mental health? An examination of the Taylor and Brown formulation.

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Cultural Variation in the Self-Concept

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Current Concepts of Positive Mental Health

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A National Study of Health Beliefs

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The self-serving attributional bias: Beyond self-presentation

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The Self-Serving Bias in Attributions as a Coping Strategy

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Multiattributional Causality

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1955 • 0 citations