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Self-awareness

Everything on this site about self-awareness — each one naming the study behind it.

You overestimate your future happiness based on your current state.
The 'hot-cold empathy gap' explains why you shop for groceries when hungry and purchase food you later regret.…
You feel less distressed just by naming your emotions.
Affect labeling—putting your feelings into words—significantly reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain's emotional…
You see biases in others but never in yourself.
The bias blind spot is the tendency to identify the cognitive biases of others more readily than one's own.…