You don't know me, but I know you
The illusion of asymmetric insight
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Pronin (0000-0003-2337-5967, Stanford Medicine), Justin Kruger (0000-0001-8229-1224, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kenneth Savtisky (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Lee Ro, Lee Ross (Stanford University) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 639-656 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.81.4.639 |
| PMID | 11642351 |
| OpenAlex | W2072444654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 82 |
People, it is hypothesized, show an asymmetry in assessing their own interpersonal and intrapersonal knowledge relative to that of their peers. Six studies suggested that people perceive their knowledge of their peers to surpass their peers' knowledge of them. Several of the studies explored sources of this perceived asymmetry, especially the conviction that while observable behaviors (e.g., interpersonal revelations or idiosyncratic word completions) are more revealing of others than self, private thoughts and feelings are more revealing of self than others. Study 2 also found that college roommates believe they know themselves better than their peers know themselves. Study 6 showed that group members display a similar bias-they believe their groups know and understand relevant out-groups better than vice versa. The relevance of such illusions of asymmetric insight for interpersonal interaction and our understanding of "naive realism" is discussed
Cognitive psychology · Conviction · Feeling · Illusion · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Intrapersonal communication · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Perceiving Self-Interest
Value revelations
Causal trait theories
Defining Traits Differently for Self and Others
The Space Between
Mind Perception
Self and Identity
Heuristics and Biases
Individual differences in reasoning
Spontaneous Inferences, Implicit Impressions, and Implicit Theories
Others Sometimes Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
How We See Ourselves and How We See Others
Doing Unto Future Selves As You Would Do Unto Others
Objectivity in the Eye of the Beholder
Representativeness Revisited
Accessibility of Private and Public Aspects of Traits Descriptive of Oneself and Others
Observable and Unobservable Aspects of Traits in Self—Other Comparisons
Large Language Models as Psychological Simulators
Knowing minds
Lay psychology of the hidden mental life
Barriers to agreement in the asymmetric Israeli–Palestinian conflict 1
Understanding the Third-Person Perception
Navigating the infodemic minefield
Ambiguity and Self-Evaluation
The Affect Heuristic
Who knows what about a person? The self–other knowledge asymmetry (Soka) model
Alone in a crowd of sheep
The invisibility cloak illusion
Missing the trees for the forest
People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do
Knowing me, knowing you
What Were You Worried About? Actors' Concerns About Revealing Fears and Insecurities Relative to Observers' Reactions
Self as a default target in thinking about traits
Science can explain other people’s minds, but not mine
解释框架对文化混搭产品评价的影响——比较焦点和解释策略的调节效应
Perceiving couples as discrete units
Temporal differences in trait self-ascription
Cultural Differences in Asymmetric Beliefs of Interpersonal Knowledge in Vertical and Horizontal Relationships
Guess What? The Asker–Guesser Discrepancy in Desire for the Right Guess
Understanding intra-group response biases in culturally diverse teams
You spy with your little eye
Fibbing friends
Who do we think of as good judges? Those who agree with us about us
Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior
Feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence
Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions
Popper, Weber, and Hayek
Inferences About the Authentic Self
The personal acquaintance measure
How Does Framing Strategy Affect Evaluation of Culturally Mixed Products? The Self-Other Asymmetry Effect
The Actor-Observer Bias in Beliefs of Interpersonal Insights
Double Standards in the Use of Enhancing Products by Self and Others
Human inference
Handbook of Social Psychology
Advances In Experimental Social Psychology
Perceived Variability of Personal Characteristics in In-Groups and Out-Groups
Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts
The Bias Blind Spot
From Acts To Dispositions The Attribution Process In Person Perception
Implicit social cognition
Telling more than we can know
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Individualism and Collectivism
Pluralistic Ignorance and the Perpetuation of Social Norms by Unwitting Actors
Self‐knowledge
The Heart on the Sleeve and the Secret Self
Comparing the Accuracy of Personality Judgments by the Self and Knowledgeable Others
Implicit personality theory
The spotlight effect in social judgment
Unskilled and unaware of it
Personal contact, individuation, and the better-than-average effect
The perceiver as perceived
Identity negotiation in roommate relationships
Self-Awareness and Feeling Transparent
The totalitarian ego
The correspondence bias
Perceived covariation among the features of ingroup and outgroup members
The perception of variability within in-groups and out-groups
Self-knowledge and social inference
Self-knowledge and social inference
Culture and the self
Self-serving prototypes of social categories
"Naive cynicism" in everyday theories of responsibility assessment
The illusion of transparency
Behavior as seen by the actor and as seen by the observer
Pluralistic ignorance
Self-concept clarity
Interpersonal perception and metaperception in nonoverlapping social groups
Egocentric biases in availability and attribution
"Feeling "holier than thou
Perception of out-group homogeneity and levels of social categorization
Meta-accuracy among acquainted individuals
"Exploring the "planning fallacy
The halo effect
The perception of self and others
How automatic are social judgments
The actor-observer effect revisited
Friends and strangers
Failure to recognize the effect of implicit social influence on the presentation of self
Cross-cultural consensus in personality judgments
Evidence for egocentric comparison in social judgment
Overconfident prediction of future actions and outcomes by self and others
Perceiving one's own traits and others
Perceived distributions of the characteristics of in-group and out-group members
Enhanced co-orientation in the perception of friends
Effects of introspecting about reasons
The overconfidence effect in social prediction
Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance
Out-group homogeneity effects in natural and minimal groups
Illusion and well-being
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| Citations per year | 2,04 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |