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The Prediction of Death from Cancer by Means of Personality/Stress Questionnaire: Too Good to Be True?

1990; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 71; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pms.1990.71.1.216

1558-688X

H. J. Eysenck,

Resilience and Mental Health

Recent work by Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck has suggested that there are personality traits which in combination can predict cancer in healthy probands with 81% accuracy. Many critics have considered this result “too good to be true” It is shown that earlier studies have given results not very different in accuracy, suggesting that such a criticism is unwarranted.