Both better and worse than others depending on difficulty: Replication and extensions of Kruger’s (1999) above and below average effects

Above-and-below-average effects are well-known phenomena that arise when comparing oneself to others. Kruger (1999) found that people rate themselves as above average for easy abilities and below average for difficult abilities. We conducted a successful pre-registered replication of Kruger’s (1999)...

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Main Authors: Max Korbmacher, Ching (Isabelle) Kwan, Gilad Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1930297500009189/type/journal_article