Lake Wobegon be gone! The "below-average effect" and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments.

1999/01/01 by Justin Kruger · 5 citations
Psychology · #Emotional Intelligence and Performance

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.221

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