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Cognitive Biases A through F
Overrating Our Abilites
Taking Responsibility for One's Own Behavior
Fundamental Attribution Error
the tendency to assume that our successes reflect our superior personal traits, while our failures are due to bad luck
also, other people do what feels right, but I do it for rational reasons
Cross-References:
Rationalization (Claiming Admirable Intent for Our Behavior)
Documents:
higher class leads to overconfidence leads to jobs
web
ScienceDaily
2019-05-20
upper-class people credit their inherent superiority
web
Matthew Hutson
Slate
2014-01-03