Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself. Science Says You Have a Pretty Good Sense of Your Own Personality

Dec 20, 2018, 11:13 AM

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It's a common belief among psychologists that people's perceptions of themselves should be taken with a grain of salt, because they're often thought to be positively biased and less accurate than the judgments supplied by others. But you really do know yourself best, according to a new paper published in the journal Psychological Science.

It's a common belief among psychologists that people's perceptions of themselves should be taken with a grain of salt, because they're often thought to be positively biased and less accurate than the judgments supplied by others. But you really do know yourself best, according to a new paper published in the journal Psychological Science.