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The Better-Than-Average Effect in Hong Kong and the United States
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2012 People tend to make self-aggrandizing social comparisons on traits that are important to the self. However, existing research on the better-than-average effect (BTAE) and trait importance does not distinguish between personal trait importance (participants’ ratings of the importance of certain traits to themselves) and cultural trait importance ...
TAM, Kim-Pong +5 more
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Explaining the better‐than‐average effect among prisoners
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2020 No description ...
Sarah G. Taylor +3 more
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The psychological mechanisms of the better-than-average effect in the moral and competence domains under self-enhancement and self-protection motives among young Japanese adults [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe better-than-average effect (BTAE) refers to the phenomenon where individuals perceive themselves as better than the average person. This effect has been independently examined in terms of social perception dimension and motivation.
Yi Ding +4 more
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Psychological Bulletin, 2020 The better-than-average-effect (BTAE) is the tendency for people to perceive their abilities, attributes, and personality traits as superior compared with their average peer. This article offers a comprehensive review of the BTAE and the first quantitative synthesis of the BTAE literature.
Ethan Zell +3 more
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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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Psychology of Language and CommunicationMansplaining, the phenomenon of men degradingly explaining something to women, is widely recognized in popular culture but has received little scholarly attention so far.
Fokkema Astrid, Pollmann Monique
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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2018 The aim of this study was to explore students’ calibration of sport performance in relation to better or worse than average effect in physical education settings. Participants were 147 fifth and sixth grade students (71 boys, 76 girls) who were tested in
Athanasios Kolovelonis, Eleni Dimitriou
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Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research, 2019 Thegreater a person’s ignorance, the more confident that person is in his or her knowledge. This phenomenon—sometimes called the Kruger–Dunning effect [6]—is the premise behind the common observation that people who are below-average drivers or below ...
S. Leopold
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The better-than-average effect drives norm misperceptions
, 2019 This research examined whether the better-than-average (BTA) effect is a possible explanation for norm misperceptions. Data from an online study demonstrates that people perceive their risk and proenvironmental behavior as more socially approved than the same behavior in others, suggesting that norm misperceptions are driven by the BTA effect.
Stöckli, Sabrina +2 more
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The Japanese journal of psychology, 1999 The purpose of this study was to examine self-enhancement tendency of Japanese people when evaluating self and others, and study the relation between the tendency and self-esteem. In Study 1, subjects were asked to evaluate themselves and an average undergraduate of their age in terms of several attributes.
Tadahiro Ito
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