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Replication of Armor, Massey & Sackett (2008, PS, Study 1)
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Original citation. Armor, D.A., Massey, C., & Sackett, A.M. 2008. Prescribed optimism: Is it right to be wrong about the future? Psychological Science, 19, 329-331.
**Target of replication.** People tend to make optimistically biased predictions about their personal futures, which conflicts with the assumption that our primary goal is to be accurate in our predictions. We plan to reproduce Armor…