(November 20, 2021 at 11:02 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:(November 20, 2021 at 10:48 am)Angrboda Wrote: I just learned that there are around a half-dozen hypotheses for explaining this effect. I'll need to investigate.
How do you think the phenomenon relates to the topic?
Illusory superiority leads to the belief that we possess traits, reasons, or knowledge that the other lacks, while it may be true that both have lack or neither have lack; the hypothesis of asymmetrical lack is the least parsimonious. One explanation for this is that we ascribe reasons for the behavior of others from the outside, without reference to their internal justifications and so we invent justifications that tend to discount that thought and reasoning was behind their actions. However, we infer our explanations of our own behavior from our internal mental content and reasons, rather than simply from our actions. This leads to an impoverished view of the other's cognitive content behind the actions observed.
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