Nearly Half of All Marriages End in Divorce

question 131

Multiple Choice

Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce.Yet in a study of 137 applying for a marriage license,most rated their own chance of divorce as zero.This finding illustrates

• A)false consensus.
• B)self-efficacy.
• C)unrealistic optimism.
• D)self-verification.

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