On Overrating Oneself. . . and Knowing it |
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Authors: | Adam Elga |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544-1006 |
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Abstract: | When it comes to evaluating our own abilities and prospects, most (non-depressed) people are subject to a distorting bias.
We think that we are better – friendlier, more well-liked, better leaders, and better drivers – than we really are. Once we
learn about this bias, we should ratchet down our self-evaluations to correct for it. But we don’t. That leaves us with an
uncomfortable tension in our beliefs: we knowingly allow our beliefs to differ from the ones that we think are supported by
our evidence. We can mitigate the tension by waffling between two belief states: a reflective state that has been recalibrated
to take into account our tendency to overrate ourselves, and a non-reflective state that has not. |
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