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Jean twenge asked undergraduates to complete a personality measure and gave them bogus feedback on their test results. students who received feedback that they would be isolated toward the end of their lives were __________.

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They were "significantly more likely than other students to engage in unhealthy behaviors".

People tend to naturally incline towards positive or negative attitudes and conducts keeping in mind the end goal of being successful or not, in this case fear of being left alone and loneliness played its part.

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