I am morally superior to others and also less biased than everyone….

While you may think you have heard this line recently, this is really (based on new research) what most of us think about ourselves. It is called the “better than average effect” and it is very persistent. We might smirk at politicians who actually say things like this aloud, but that’s only because we tend […]...

Tappin, B., & McKay, R. (2016) The Illusion of Moral Superiority. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 10.1177/1948550616673878  

Howell JL, & Ratliff KA. (2016) Not your average bigot: The better-than-average effect and defensive responding to Implicit Association Test feedback. The British Journal of Social Psychology. PMID: 27709628  

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