The Better-Than-Average Effect Is Observed Because “Average” Is Often Construed as Below-Median Ability [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 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
Young-Hoon Kim +2 more
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Understanding the Better Than Average Effect on Altruism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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.
Yunyu Xiao +5 more
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Conformity, obedience, and the Better than Average Effect in health professional students [PDF]
Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021 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 ...
Efrem Violato, Sharla King, Okan Bulut
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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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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]
Frontiers in Psychology, 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.
Tomasz Grzyb, Dariusz Dolinski
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Acta Psychologica, 2022 Previous research has found that the better-than-average effect exists in moral issues: specifically, people believe that they are more moral than others.
Kyueun Han, Min Young Kim
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Reversed better-than-average effect in direct comparisons of nonsocial stimuli depends on the set size. [PDF]
Mem Cognit, 2014 Studies on direct comparative judgments typically show that, for items that are positively evaluated, a single item randomly drawn from a larger set of similar items tends to be judged as better than average (the BTA effect). However, Windschitl, Conybeare, and Krizan (2008) demonstrated that, under timing conditions that do not favor focusing ...
Niewiarowski J +3 more
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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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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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