People can predict your behaviour better than you can in situations you have not met yet

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What you say about yourself on a questionnaire and what your choices say about you are two different data sets In the moment people report one thing and in retrospect they report the peak and the ending The better-than-average effect is strongest on traits nobody can measure Calibration is the part of self-assessment nobody teaches: knowing where your knowledge stops First-person authority says you cannot be wrong about your own experience and clinical practice keeps contradicting it Other people often know your patterns before you do and that is information you cannot get alone When behaviour contradicts the self-concept people usually revise the concept and keep the behaviour Bem's self-perception theory says you infer your own attitudes from your behaviour the way you infer anyone else's Introspection produces confident explanations for behaviour that had no such reason behind it You grade your own performance on intentions while everyone else grades the output

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