Not so Above Average After All: When People Believe They are Worse than Average and its Implications for Theories of Bias in Social Comparison

By Don A Moore. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-Enhancement: Food for Thought (2008, background): “illusions—might simply be due to controllable events and traits being more commonplace (Moore, 2007).”
The trouble with overconfidence. (2008, unknown): “However, some research suggests that discrepancies between direct and indire ct elicitation methods are an artifact of question format, and that parallel quest ion formats can eliminate the discrepancy (Burson & Klayman, 2005; Moore, 2007).”
The impact of information from similar or different advisors on judgment (2009, background): “This rarely happens ( 67 out of 1104 , about 6% of the cases ) , and in this study , following previous research , we truncate the WOA value to 1 ( Harvey & Fischer , 1997 ; Gino & Moore , 2007 ) .”
When overconfidence is revealed to others: Testing the status-enhancement theory of overconfidence (2013, unknown): “For example, many people overestimate the superiority of their work performance (Cross, 1977; Haun, Zeringue, Leach, & Foley, 2000; Zenger, 1992), social skills (College Board, 1976–1977; Lewinsohn, Mischel, Chaplin, & Barton, 1980; Swann & Gill, 1997), and physical talents (Dunning, Meyerowitz, & H”
What Does It Mean to be Biased: Motivated Reasoning and Rationality (2014, background): “(Kruger, 1999; Moore, 2007), and the false consensus effect (whereby people overestimate the extent to which others share their opinions, Ross, Greene, & House, 1977) is mirrored by the false uniqueness effect (Frable, 1993; Mullen, Dovidio, Johnson, & Copper, 1992; Suls, Wan, & Sanders, 1988).”
Social comparison processes in organizations (2007, background): “Indeed, modern scientiWc wisdom is more highly nuanced (Moore, 2007).”
Social comparison processes in an organizational context: New directions (2007, background): “Third, there are many well-rehearsed topics in the social comparison literature, such as the selection of upward or downward comparisons (Buunk & Gibbons, 2007) or ‘‘Betterthan-Average Effects’’ (e.g., Moore, 2007).”