Self-Enhancement Bias
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Self-enhancement bias is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem.
Social Biases
/ Self-serving bias (related)
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Explore 5 cognitive biases related to this topic.
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Self-enhancement bias is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem.
Social Biases
/ Self-serving bias (related)
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Impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a 'fraud'.
Social Biases
/ Impostor phenomenon
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Nostalgia bias is the tendency to view the past, especially one's own past, with longing and affection, often idealizing it while ignoring negative aspects.
Memory Biases
/ Golden age syndrome
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The Hawthorne effect (also referred to as the observer effect) is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
Social Biases
/ Observer effect
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The observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, observer bias, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to subconsciously influence the participants of an experiment.
Social Biases
/ Experimenter bias