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Since the 1970s, social psychology has investigated real human behavior to an increasingly smaller degree. The author of the article suggests that the phenomenon of cognitive revolution in psychology naturally boosted the interest of researchers in such phenomena like attitudes, values, social judgments and stereotypes; at the same time, it decreased interest in others important topics like aggression, social influence or altruism. In recent decades, we have also witnessed a growing conviction among social psychologists that explaining why people perform certain actions holds greater importance that demonstrating the conditions under which people really display particular reactions. The key question appears in this situation of whether social psychology remains of science of (real) behavior, and whether the current condiction of the discipline is desirable or rather pathological.

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Dariusz Doliński
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Forty years of research on Unrealistic Optimism - a delusion that negative events are less likely and positive events are more likely to happen to oneself (in comparison to others) - has proved to be robust. Importantly, as a result, people holding this bias reduce their engagement in health prevention and following medical recommendations, etc., leading to the conclusion that this bias is dangerous. However, there is hardly any research on how to reduce this bias. To address this issue, an experiment in the real-life context of the COVID-19 pandemic was run. It was found that participants’ Unrealistic Optimism was reduced when they were exposed to the behavior of others who did not follow medical recommendations.
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Wojciech Kulesza
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Dariusz Doliński
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Paweł Muniak
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Kamil Izydorczak
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Rafał Węgrzyn
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Aidana Rizulla
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  1. SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
  2. SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland
  3. University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland
  4. Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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