Social comparison bias is the tendency to have feelings of dislike and competitiveness with someone seen as physically, socially, or mentally better than...

Song H, Tesser A (November 2010). "Tainted recommendations: The social comparison bias". Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 113 (2):...

Psychological projection – Attributing parts of the self to others Social comparison bias Social projection – Psychological tendency of people to expect others...

the comparison target was someone more distant to the participant. There is support for perceived social distance in determining the optimistic bias. Through...

Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information...

Social comparison theory, initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that individuals drive to gain accurate...

"Self-enhancement and Superiority Biases in Social Comparison". In Stroebe, W., Hewstone, Miles (eds.). European Review of Social Psychology 4. Wiley. Jensen...

Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair....

In-group favoritism, sometimes known as in-group–out-group bias, in-group bias, intergroup bias, or in-group preference, is a pattern of favoring members...

In social psychology, illusory superiority is a cognitive bias wherein people overestimate their own qualities and abilities compared to others. Illusory...