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Janet Boseovski
Janet J. Boseovski is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. She studies social judgments and decision making in early to late childhood.
Education & Society
Children Are Natural Optimists (Which Has Its Ups and Downs)
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young.