Evaluations of Self and Others: Self-Enhancement Biases in Social Judgments

By Jonathon D. Brown. 1986

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Judging LLM-as-a-judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena (2023, methodology): “We adopt the term “self-enhancement bias” from social cognition literature [4] to describe the effect that LLM judges may favor the answers generated by themselves.”
Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. (1999, unknown): “We have little doubt that other factors such as motivational biases (Alicke, 1985; Brown, 1986; Taylor & Brown, 1988), self-serving trait definitions (Dunning & Cohen, 1992; Dunning et al.”
Not so Above Average After All: When People Believe They are Worse than Average and its Implications for Theories of Bias in Social Comparison (2007, unknown): “One piece of evidence often cited in support of BTA eVects is the fact that people generally rate positive personality attributes to be more descriptive of themselves than of others (Alicke, 1985; Brown, 1986).”
Revisiting Individual Creativity Assessment: Triangulation in Subjective and Objective Assessment Methods (2016, background): “The concept of illusory superiority, also identified as a sense of relative superiority (Headey & Wearing, 1988) or the above average effect (Dunning, Meyerowitz, & Holzberg, 1989), describes the tendency to treat all members of a group, or to describe oneself as above average (Brown, 1986).”
Culture and Positive Illusions in Close Relationships: How My Relationships Are Better than Yours (2000, background): “…in control more so than situations allow (Langer, 1975); and they view their sports teams (Lau & Russell, 1980), schools (Cialdini & Richardson, 1980; Heine & Lehman, 1997a), cities (Kitayama, Palm, Masuda, Karasawa, & Carroll, 1996), and friends (Brown, 1986) more positively than those of others.”
How Do Auditors Weight Informal Contrary Advice? The Joint Influence of Advisor Social Bond and Advice Justifiability (2013, unknown): “well-documented tendency for people to optimistically assess socially close others (Messick et al. 1985; Brown 1986; Gagné and Lydon 2004).”
The X-factor: On the relevance of implicit leadership and followership theories for leader–member exchange agreement (2009, background): “More specifically, most people hold unrealistically positive views of the self, for instance, by judging positive traits as more characteristic of themselves than negative traits (Alicke, 1985; Brown, 1986), by recalling information related to their own successes better than information related to f”
Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent. (2008, unknown): “Instead, they argued, the pattern was produced by regression to the mean coupled with the fact that people tend overall to rate themselves as above average (Alicke, 1985; Brown 1986; Krueger, 1998).”
The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns (2020, background): “Social desirability is particularly pronounced for moral aspirations central to wisdom because most people wish to perceive themselves, and to be perceived as, better than they actually are (e.g., Brown, 1986; Kruger & Dunning, 1999).”
Self-enhancement in Japan and America (2002, background): “Most people evaluate themselves favorably when comparing themselves with others (Brown, 1986, 1998).”
The costly pursuit of self-esteem. (2004, background): “High self-esteem people believe they are superior to others in many domains (Brown, 1986; Campbell, 1986), and they expect their futures to be rosy relative to other people’s (Taylor & Brown, 1988).”
Self-Knowledge of Personality: Do People Know Themselves? (2010, unknown): “…overestimate their abilities (Dunning, Meyerowitz, & Holzberg, 1989; Kruger & Dunning, 1999) and rate themselves more favorably than they rate others (Alicke, 1985; Brown, 1986; Messick, Bloom, Boldizar, & Samuelson, 1985; Taylor & Brown, 1988; Taylor, Lerner, Sherman, Sage, & McDowell, 2003).”
A Self-Standards Model of Cognitive Dissonance (2001, background): “Resea shows, for example, that people with high self-esteem i tify positive traits as more self-descriptive than nega traits (Brown, 1986; Campbell, 1990), they rate posi attributes as important to possess and are relatively c that they possess them (e.g., Campbell & Lavallee, 19 and they report…”
Belief and feeling: evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report. (2002, background): “, & Brown, J. D. (1988). Illusion and well-being: A social”