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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient
Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
People can feel that they understand another person or group better than that person or group understands them, partly because they compare their own inner experience with others’ visible behaviour.
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Checked source previewAcademic paper
Who Knows What About a Person? The Self–Other Knowledge Asymmetry Model
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- What it supports
- The self was relatively advantaged for less observable traits, whereas others could be more accurate for highly evaluative traits, showing that knowledge depends on information and motivation.
- Where it may not transfer
- Personality traits and close informants do not directly model product analytics or sensitive prediction. Accuracy criteria and trait measures have their own validity limits.
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