(Q3246951)

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superiority bias

cognitive bias wherein a person overestimates their own qualities and abilities

  • illusory superiority
  • above-average effect
  • leniency error
  • sense of relative superiority
  • primus inter pares effect
  • Lake Wobegon effect
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The term illusory superiority was first used by the researchers Van Yperen and Buunk, in 1991. (English)
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