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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 You’re Not Perfect And that’s great news. The Atlantic Happiness 6 June, 2024 | 738 words | ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ We humans have a natural tendency to exaggerate our positive qualities, and compare ourselves favorably with others. This is called “self-enhancement bias,” and it gives rise to all sorts of distortions in perception. Famously, back in the 1980s, researchers showed that up to 80 percent of motorists considered themselves to have above-average driving skills. If you’re a regular driver, you have to know that this cannot be true—even if you persist in believing it about yourself. People also tend to rate themselves more highly on positive moral traits: They are likely, for example, to see themselves as hard-working, honest, and warm. And they tend to rate other people higher on negative traits such as being lazy, cold, and insincere. This is especially true for young and middle-aged adults, who rank themsel
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