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Bioinspired Optimization for Feature Selection in Post-Compliance Risk Prediction. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Paz Á   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trait desirability and cultural difference in the better‐than‐average effect

Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2012
The present study examined whether cultural differences in the better‐than‐average effect (the tendency to view oneself as better than average) would vary with trait desirability and used Koreans and Americans as representatives of East Asian and Western cultures, respectively.
Jongtae Lee
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Understanding the Better Than Average Effect

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011
People evaluate themselves more positively than they evaluate most other people. Although this better than average (BTA) effect was originally thought to represent a motivated bias, several cognitively oriented theorists have questioned whether this is the case.
Jonathon D. Brown
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Personal contact, individuation, and the better-than-average effect.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1995
Research in which people compare themselves with an average peer has consistently shown that people evaluate themselves more favorably than they evaluate others. Seven studies were conducted to demonstrate that the magnitude of this better-than-average effect depends on the level of abstraction in the comparison.
Mark D. Alicke   +4 more
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Trait Valence and the Better-Than-Average Effect

Psychological Reports, 2011
People tend to regard themselves as having superior personality traits compared to their average peer. To test whether this “better-than-average effect” varies with trait valence, participants ( N = 154 students) rated both themselves and the average student on traits constituting either positive or negative poles of five trait dimensions.
Ron S, Gold, Mark G, Brown
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Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020
People tend to regard themselves as better than average. We conducted a replication and extension of Alicke’s classic study on trait dimensions in evaluations of self versus others with U.S. American Mechanical Turk workers in two waves (total N = 1,573; 149 total traits).
Ignazio Ziano   +2 more
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The Motivated Self: Self-Affirmation and the Better-Than-Average Effect

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2012
Research has shown that individuals routinely espouse “better-than-average” beliefs across a host of traits, skills, and abilities. Although some theorists take this tendency as evidence of self-enhancement motives guiding the organization and understanding of self-knowledge, others argue that better-than-average perceptions can be fully explained by ...
Corey L, Guenther   +1 more
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