From: The Huffington Post
It Pays To Be Overconfident
The Huffington Post:
The eye is an exquisite sensory device — honed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution — and yet people are incredibly biased in their perception.
If you don’t believe you’re biased, think for a moment about the last time you saw a candid photo of yourself that you liked. If you’re similar to most people, you probably think that 80 percent of the shots of yourself are poorly taken. But your friends are not bad photographers; you’re just not as good looking as you think you are. And that’s why you don’t like their pictures of you, because they capture what you really look like.
The best example of this effect can be seen in a wonderful pair of experiments by Nick Epley (at the University of Chicago) and Erin Whitchurch (at the University of Virginia). They took photographs of their participants, morphed them to varying degrees with attractive or unattractive faces, and then asked people to identify their actual photo among an array of the morphed photos.
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