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You believe you are more unique than you are.
The false uniqueness effect leads you to overestimate how rare your own positive traits and abilities actually are.
While you overestimate how much others agree with your beliefs, you simultaneously assume your talents are rare. You view yourself as an outlier in ability while insisting you are a peer in opinion.
You like to believe your strengths are uniquely yours.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Suls and Wan, 1987
- What the check found
- The definition of the false uniqueness effect is standard, and the cited work (Suls and Wan, 1987) is a primary, well-cited psychological study on this specific phenomenon.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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