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<\/a>Rose<\/p><\/div>\u201cWhen people have a disaster happen \u2014 something traumatic \u2014 you want to get a sense of how they\u2019re able to adjust or cope,\u201d the UT assistant professor of psychology said.
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Rose joined psychology professors Jerry Suls, Paul Windschitl and Andrew Smith to study this topic. Their findings were somewhat of a surprise to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens is that people become pretty optimistic about the future,\u201d Rose said. \u201cThey don\u2019t really feel like tornado injuries are likely to happen to them. When comparing themselves to their peers, they feel like they are uniquely invulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n
To find this information, Rose and his colleagues established areas in Iowa that had been dramatically affected by the tornado they had witnessed. They then found areas that were not affected and surveyed residents from those two areas.<\/p>\n
They found that residents in the areas most affected actually were more optimistic about avoiding future tornado injury than were residents from the least affected locations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of an interesting finding and somewhat counter-intuitive,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n
He said one explanation could be that the people in the impacted areas know they have survived a tornado once and they feel confident they could again. Another reason is the old idea that lightning doesn\u2019t strike twice in the same place, so those affected may think that this rare event will not happen to them more than once.<\/p>\n
Rose and the psychology professors collectively wrote an article published March 1 for the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Suls, a professor at the University of Iowa, was the main author; he was assisted by Rose, Windschitl of the University of Iowa and Smith of Appalachian State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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