Understanding the Better Than Average Effect on Altruism. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Prior research suggests that most people perceive themselves to be more altruistic than the average population, an observation known as the better-than-average (BTA) effect. Understanding the BTA effect carries significant public health implications, as self-perceived altruism is closely related to altruistic behaviors, which plays a significant role ...
Xiao Y, Wong K, Cheng Q, Yip PSF.
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Conformity, obedience, and the Better than Average Effect in health professional students. [PDF]
Can Med Educ J, 2022 Background: Compliance, through conformity and obedience to authority, can produce negative outcomes for patient safety, as well as education. To date, educational interventions for dealing with situations of compliance or positive deviance have shown variable results.
Violato E, King S, Bulut O.
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Financial well-being, COVID-19, and the financial better-than-average-effect. [PDF]
J Behav Exp Finance, 2020 At the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak we conducted a survey (n=1000) regarding how people assess the near future economic situation within their household, nation, and the world. Together with psychological factors related to information processing we link these prospects to financial well-being.
Barrafrem K, Västfjäll D, Tinghög G.
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The Better-Than-Average Effect Is Observed Because "Average" Is Often Construed as Below-Median Ability. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 Most people rate their abilities as better than "average" even though it is statistically impossible for most people to have better-than-median abilities. Some investigators explained this phenomenon in terms of a self-enhancement bias. The present study complements this motivational explanation with the parsimonious cognitive explanation that the ...
Kim YH, Kwon H, Chiu CY.
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For me or for others? The better-than-average effect and negative feelings toward average others during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Curr Psychol, 2022 During the first outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many people expressed hatred toward others whom they believed were responsible for the situation. Such increase in negative affect could be resultant of the better-than-average effect (
Kim MY, Han K.
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Remembering proper names as a potential exception to the better-than-average effect in younger and older adults. [PDF]
Psychol Aging, 2020 People see themselves as better than average in many domains, from leadership skills to driving ability. However, many people-especially older adults-struggle to remember others' names, and many of us are aware of this struggle.
Hargis MB, Whatley MC, Castel AD.
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Beliefs about Obedience Levels in Studies Conducted within the Milgram Paradigm: Better than Average Effect and Comparisons of Typical Behaviors by Residents of Various Nations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 The article presents studies examining whether the better than average (BTA) effect appears in opinions regarding obedience of individuals participating in an experiment conducted in the Milgram paradigm.
Grzyb T, Dolinski D.
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Does the Better-than-Average Effect Show that People are Overconfident?: Two Experiments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overconfident, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and appropriately confident agents.
Benoît, Jean-Pierre +2 more
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Explaining the better‐than‐average effect among prisoners
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2020 No description ...
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Deconstructing the better-than-average effect.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2010 The tendency for people to evaluate themselves more favorably than an average-peer--the better-than-average effect (BTAE)--is among the most well-documented effects in the social-psychological literature. The BTAE has been demonstrated in many populations with various methodologies, and several explanations have been advanced for it.
Corey L, Guenther, Mark D, Alicke
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