All Implicit Egotism and Self-Preference Effects

Effects in which people show an unprompted liking for things connected to themselves, such as the letters of their own name or the numbers of their birth date, without being asked to judge themselves. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes a preference that follows from a link to the self rather than from an estimate of ability or of future events. Overestimation of skill and mistaken forecasts of feelings belong in their own groups. Where researchers dispute whether an effect is real or comes from artifacts in the data, the member page says so.