Biases in how well people see the workings of their own minds compared with others, including the bias blind spot and the introspection illusion. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes a limit on self-insight. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Self-Insight and Blind Spot Biases rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.
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Wikipedia: Bias Blind Spot
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The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of recognizing the impact of biases on the judgment of others, while failing to see the impact of biases on one's own judgment.
Introspection illusion, Wikipedia
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The introspection illusion is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly think they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating others' introspections as unreliable.
Wikipedia: Curse of knowledge
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The curse of knowledge, also called the curse of expertise or expert's curse, is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge.
Wikipedia: Intellectual humility
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Intellectual humility is a metacognitive process characterized by recognizing the limits of one's knowledge and acknowledging one's fallibility.
Wikipedia: Impostor syndrome
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Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, or impostor thoughts, is a psychological experience in which a person suffers from feelings of intellectual and/or professional fraudulence.
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