Lake Wobegon be gone! The 'below-average effect' and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments

Kruger, J. (1999). Lake Wobegon be gone! The 'below-average effect' and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(2), 221-232.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1999

DOI

10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.221

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.221

Cited from

psychology

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Primes

• Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • This is sometimes called the "false consensus effect" or better-than-average effect.

    This sourceShows people anchor egocentrically on their own skills when judging relative ability, producing the better-than-average effect; supports D16-105 (the reference-point/false-consensus bias — using one's own understanding as the implicit comparison point). RE-SOURCED: the marker previously carried key heine-lehman-1999, a cross-cultural self-satisfaction paper (also mis-titled in the prime) that does not establish the false-consensus/better-than-average reference-point claim.

Domain-specific

• Comparative Self-Assessment Crossover
  • On easy, familiar, or widely practiced tasks, people often place themselves above the reference-group average

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