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Social cognition
Everything on this site about social cognition — each one naming the study behind it.
- You lose the ability to teach once you learn.The curse of knowledge describes the inability to imagine that other people do not know what you know.…
- You overestimate how much the world focuses on you.The spotlight effect describes your tendency to believe that your appearance and actions are more visible to others th…
- You judge others by character and yourself by circumstance.The actor-observer asymmetry explains why you interpret your own bad behavior as a situational necessity while labelin…