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A newly detected bias in self-evaluation

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The widely observed positive bias in self-evaluation is mainly explained by the self-enhancement tendency which minimizes negative feedbacks and emphasizes positive ones. Recent agent based simulations suggest that a positive bias also emerges if the sensitivity to feedbacks decreases when the self-evaluation increases. We describe a pilot experiment (N = 220) and a larger experiment (N = 1509) aiming at detecting such a bias. The results confirm that, especially when the self-evaluation is high, the sensitivity to feedbacks tends to decrease when self-evaluation increases and this generates a specific positive bias.

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Psychologie
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hal-03790992 , version 1 (28-09-2022)
hal-03790992 , version 2 (26-02-2024)

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Guillaume Deffuant, Thibaut Roubin, Armelle Nugier, Serge Guimond. A newly detected bias in self-evaluation. 2022. ⟨hal-03790992v1⟩
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