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Peer reviewedSnyder, C. R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Describes a class experiment illustrating students' illusions about their own mortality (often referred to as "unique invulnerability"). The students received information, culled from actuarial tables, concerning age and mortality rates. The students consistently overestimated their own age of death even when told they would do so. (MJP)
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Class Activities, Death, Expectation
